Stevenson’s army, November 16

– The Senate has formally insisted on a conference with the House on the NDAA instead of following the recent practice of reaching agreement informally. I’m not sure why the GOP wanted this, but one consequence is that a formal conference sets up a complex array of parliamentary moves in each house on amendments in disagreement and questions of scope — more than you need to know for class, but maybe fun to watch. One of the first steps may be instructing conferees. Another consequence is that final action is likely to be delayed because of the maneuvering and parliamentary requirements.

-SAIS Prof Chivvis has authored a thorough and valuable paper on The Role of Congress in US-Chinese relations.

-Politico’s China Watcher has a good summary of the Biden-Xi summit.

-CFR has good background on Biden’s IPEF, which fell short at the APEC meeting.

– WSJ says intercepts persuaded US intelligence of Hamas use of hospitals.

– WaPo says hostage deal looks promising.

-WaPo summarizes US opinion on Israel and Ukraine.

– Pew says 32% of Americans under 30 get their news from TikTok.

– NYT summarizes recent articles on Trump policy plans.

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