A REAFFIRMATION OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

What options remain to meet our goal of bringing home American troops and leaving behind a stable Iraq? With that introduction January 10th, Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened a remarkable series of 12 in-depth public hearings on the mi...

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Published inNaval Forces Vol. 28; no. 1; p. 6
Main Author Peterson, Gordon I
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Aldershot Monch Publications 01.01.2007
Subjects
Armed forces
Committees
Congressional investigations
Iraq War-2003
Politics
Public hearings
Sectarian violence
Terrorism
Iraq
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Summary:What options remain to meet our goal of bringing home American troops and leaving behind a stable Iraq? With that introduction January 10th, Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened a remarkable series of 12 in-depth public hearings on the military and political dimensions of the war in Iraq. [...] significantly, some members of the president's own Republican Party aligned with their Democratic colleagues to draft multiple, nonbinding resolutions and bills criticizing the president's updated war strategy, urging broader international engagement, and threatening more substantive steps to control the war's purse strings.
ISSN:0722-8880