In 2006 Brown oversaw the SOF component of the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) which is a legislatively-mandated study by the Department of Defense that analyzes strategic objectives and potential military threats.
Trump's action in giving the right-wingers a clear field is aimed at undermining the ACA without addressing it head-on; undoubtedly it knows that a head-on attack is a loser legislatively and even politically.
Well, Jake, first of all, let's take a step back and understand that this is a process legislatively that has played out over the course of nine months.
In his opening statement, the committee chairman, Representative John Conyers Jr. said the issue of brain injuries in football warranted federal scrutiny because "the N.F.L. is a monopoly whose existence was legislatively sanctioned," referring to the antitrust exemption for broadcasting that has helped the league grow into a multibillion-dollar operation.
Trump's budget may be dead on arrival legislatively but it is a big deal politically.
The lack of kindergartens in villages is a "colossal problem," she says, and social benefits, such as paternity leave, need to be "regulated legislatively".
And, in many ways, he's delivered on that pledge, if you consider "change" to be a presidency both legislatively and stylistically different from Bush.
Politically speaking, most Republican strategists and even most GOP politicians have privately acknowledged for quite some time that the chances of ripping the law from its roots legislatively was a nonstarter for two reasons.
Little-remembered now, December of 2010 was a very productive month, legislatively.
"Because that's what matters, right, the unemployment rate coming down?" Goolsbee says that...uhm...there's been a cycle of dysfunction, legislatively...and now the President has cracked that log jam.
