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Power, Oversight and the Rule of Law page 2 of 2
The Pecora Hearings of 1933 and the Bankers Who Testified Under Oath A Sicilian-born prosecutor questioned the most powerful bankers in America in 1933 and turned their answers into the securities laws, deposit insurance and the SEC. The Pendleton Act and the Assassination That Created the Civil Service A disappointed office-seeker shot President Garfield in 1881. The outrage that followed produced the 1883 Pendleton Act and the merit-based civil service we are arguing about again. The Pocket Rescission of August 2025 and Spending Congress Already Approved How a rescission request sent in the last weeks of the 2025 fiscal year let about $4.9 billion in foreign aid expire without a vote, and why the legal fight over it matters for every appropriation. When DOGE Reached the Treasury's Payment Systems in February 2025 How a small DOGE team got into the Treasury systems that send nearly every federal payment, and what the lawsuits that followed said about privacy and power.