The lack of staffers with TS/SCI clearance frustrates the House of Representatives' ability to engage in vital oversight and informed decision-making.

It's been a problem for FISA section 702 reform -- and also for Congress's work on matters of war and peace.

Who connected to the House ethics process is leaking?

I (and Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky) told ya so in Jan 2023. firstbranchforecast.com/2023/01/09/fir…

And the rule is adopted, with Dems for and a 3 Rs against. Weird

Newsy FISA update for Senate watchers:

—Leadership trying to get a deal on amendment votes to be able to wrap this up by tomorrow, but the concern is that some of them (like the warrant amendment that resulted in a tie in the House & Wyden’s amendment to scrap Turner provision)…

National media wasn’t even on this story. But I just looked where they told me to look.

The only reason I thought about this was that when I woke up this morning, one of them had texted me this:

“Look what we did…

No one else.

Just us.”

kansaspublicradio.org/2024-04-16/not…

If Speaker Johnson calls for regular order on the various funding supplementals I will be very, very entertained.

The problem isn’t that rules committee members aren’t loyal enough to leadership. It’s that they’re expected to be loyal to leadership and not the members of the chamber.