Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Remember When Congress Took Government Seriously?

Oversight of executive agencies is part of the House and Senate’s job. Or used to be.

May 12, 2021 at 7:30 AM EDT

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

There’s work to be done.
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We are apparently in for another Secret Service scandal, with a new book revealing new Trump-era problems and reviewing older troubles going back through multiple presidencies. I don’t know anything about the specifics of managing that agency, other than that it certainly has had more than its share of public woes over the last several years.

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