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The new White House counsel, Gregory B. Craig, briefed lawmakers about some elements of the orders on Wednesday evening.
Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida, and chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, briefed lawmakers on how to respond.
White House officials have not fully briefed lawmakers on the expanding consequences of the government shutdown, leading to confusion about what happens as each week goes by.
Even if all this is true, some of the briefed lawmakers left wondering whether this was a wise policy for handling the beleaguered Kurds, who had been betrayed so often by the U.S. government in years past.
Also yesterday, the chief of the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress charged with oversight of the Treasury bailout program, briefed lawmakers on the monitoring his agency had carried out so far.
Top administration officials, including Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, briefed lawmakers and congressional staffers this week about President Obama's decision to push for the U.N. action this September, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which was adopted in September 1996 but was never ratified by the Senate.
Mr. Draghi's predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, briefed German lawmakers in April 2010 on the details of the first financial bailout for Greece, along with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers briefed by administration officials this week report that they were given no detailed information.
A1 Panel Is Briefed on Spying After facing pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the White House changed its stance by providing a closed-door briefing on the highly classified National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to the full House Intelligence Committee.
Commanders briefed pilots and ground crews.
