A breakfast desk plump of questions for Adam Schiff
When Acquire. Adam Schiff stepped into Washington’s St. Regis Resort Thursday for a Monitor Breakfast, there used to be no scarcity of issues on the desk.
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Acquire. Adam Schiff, chairman of the Home Intelligence Committee, speaks at a breakfast organized by The Christian Science Monitor on the St. Regis Resort on Sept. 23, 2021, in Washington.
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Pricey Reader,
When Acquire. Adam Schiff stepped into Washington’s St. Regis Resort Thursday for a Monitor Breakfast with journalists, there used to be no scarcity of issues on the desk.
Two days earlier, the 11-term Democrat from California had rolled out a bundle of reforms aimed at curbing presidential vitality – a response to the Trump presidency known as the Maintaining Our Democracy Act. Congressman Schiff led with a pitch for the laws.
However, as I pointed out in my breakfast document, Mr. Schiff wears many hats. He’s chairman of the Home Intelligence Committee. He’s a member of the resolve committee investigating the Jan. 6 revolt on the Capitol. He performed a key role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
So he used to be peppered with questions a pair of range of issues – from the many ways presidential vitality could perhaps be reined in, to the Jan. 6 probe, the U.S. drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, and the Democrats’ aggressive policy agenda.
The data protection afterward mirrored the breadth of the discussion. Reuters went with Mr. Schiff’s comment that so much of congressional committees are investigating the errant drone strike and the intelligence failure that preceded it. Axios and The Hill highlighted his commentary that Jan. 6 committee witnesses who refuse to testify could perhaps also face criminal contempt fees. The Washington Cases led with my are waiting for on how the Biden household will be affected by the Maintaining Our Democracy Act.
However I was moreover reminded of the dilapidated Tip O’Neill announcing, “all politics is native.” After the breakfast, I requested Mr. Schiff if he used to be elated that the U.S. executive had at closing, fully known the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. It’s a topic attain to my coronary heart, and I had anticipated President Joe Biden’s resolution in April in a brief half about an Armenian-American friend whose surgeon father had escaped the genocide – and went on to form out well-liked Sen. Bob Dole.
Mr. Schiff represents a district in Los Angeles County, dwelling to the ideal Armenian neighborhood outside Armenia. He fought for genocide recognition for 20 years. And prance, he’s elated.
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