CSPC Director of Policy Dan Mahaffee is quoted in a piece on FoxNews.com on the history of Presidential pardons and modern presidents' reluctance to use them. Speaking of the perilous nature of the use of pardons, Mahaffee uses the example of President Ford's pardoning of Nixon saying, “That was a lightening rod. It was likely the right thing to do in terms of the nation healing quickly. But it hurt his presidency.”

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An op-ed by CSPC Director of Policy Dan Mahaffee was published in Politico on March 7th. Titled "The 'Back to the Future' Filibuster," the piece comments on Rand Paul's historic thirteen-hour speaking filibuster during the confirmation hearing of CIA Director John Brennan. Mahaffee argues that it took the use of a 19th-century parliamentary maneuver to draw significant attention to a pressing 21st-century issue-- the escalating reliance on drones, at a time of decreasing congressional oversight of the executive branch in areas of national security.

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An op-ed by CSPC Trustee David Gergen focusing on the budget deal featured in CNN, argues that the American public has been turned off by the political showdown in Washington over sequestration.

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GW's School of Media and Public Affairs in association with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) present "Scandal and Silence: When the Watchdog Doesn't Bark".The discussion was lead by Robert Entman, the J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at GWU, and feature panelists Michael Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News; Egil "Bud" Krogh, Former Nixon Staffer & Senior Fellow, CSPC; and Mara Liasson, National Political Correspondent, NPR.

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A commentary on the current status of U.S. budget deal written by CSPC Trustee David M. Walker was published in Reuters. Walker writes of the need for comprehensive fiscal reform, "But here’s the problem: The deal we need is about far more than addressing the sequester. Our elected officials must agree to a fiscal Grand Bargain in 2013 ‑ or they will have once again punted on the tough decisions that define leadership."

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CSPC Trustee Amb. Francis Rooney reflects on the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI in First Things.

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A commentary written by CSPC Vice Chairman & Counselor David M. Abshire and Senior Adviser Christopher O. Howard is published in the Latin American Herald Tribune in the lead up to President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.

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In an op-ed published on February 6, 2013 in Politico, CSPC Trustee David Walker praises the bipartisan support in Congress for the "No Budget, No Pay" proposal, in which Congressman would be held accountable for failing to pass a budget (something the Senate has failed to do for four straight years) by foreiting pay. However, he admonishes Congress for planning on being on recess for a total of one month between now and several major debt deadlines have been resolved. "For this reason," Walker says,  "my organization along with other groups is launching a new campaign we are calling No Deal, No Break. The premise is simple: Stay in Washington, do your job and strike a meaningful fiscal deal that can restore fiscal sanity. And until that happens, don’t recess."

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In an op-ed in the Boston Globe published January 31, 2013, CSPC Trustee Nicholas Burns argues that China poses one of the greatest challenges to the Obama Administration in its second term, and especially to the new Secretary of State John Kerry.

Burns writes, "Future biographers of John Kerry might well judge that American security in the 21st century is inseparable from the balance of power in Asia. We will continue to disagree with Chinese leaders on important issues — human rights, intellectual property, cyber threats, and democracy. But, there is no debate that, for the Obama-Kerry team, China must be the great priority for the four years ahead."

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CSPC Trustee David Walker appeared on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" on January 28th to debate U.S. fiscal policy with economist Paul Krugman.

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