@old europe,
old europe wrote:
To be filed under "How Republicans in Congress prepare for the Trump era":
It's good to know that our British friends here are on the lookout for lapses in our governance. I hope they will forgive my relative indifference to their internal issues - I generally restrain such judgment or, more to the point, expresed observations, to matters that have the potential to affect me directly.
Our Congress has powers that are more circumscribed, by the Constitution and the checks and balances of our three part government structure, than those of the British Parliament. However the Congress is indeed an independent body able to create or eliminate any of the so called "independent" bodies it creates. The matter to which you refer has not been enacted by our Congress, rather it appears that some within it have made such a proposal. Much uncertainty and more decisions lie ahead for it.
That said I am grateful for your unusual zeal and attention on this matter, even in the absence of any personal interest or voice in it. I sleep better knowing that busybodies far away in the UK are looking out for us.
