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CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP REPORT: Congressional Tools in Foreign Policy: Rock, Paper, or Scissors? War Games of the Legislative Branch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Julie Goodman
Julie Goodman
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2007–08 Congressional Fellow
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There are the telltale signs: men with squiggly earpieces emerge from SUVs with dark-tinted windows and government license plates, and heading stoically through the corridors of the Rayburn House Office Building. This is the unmistakable advance of the executive branch, with its flashiest U.S. Defense and State Department officials, and their convergence on their legislative counterpart to appear humbly before watchdog-minded committee chairs.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 225 - 227
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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