There is now only one week left now to nominate legislators for the Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight. The deadline is November 1. From the Levin Center at the Wayne State University Law School:
The Levin Center at Wayne Law is seeking nominations for the third Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight to be given to one or more U.S. legislators at the national, state, or local level who have demonstrated an extraordinary effort to conduct fact-based, bipartisan oversight. The first award was given to South Carolina State Representative Weston Newton, the Republican chair of a recently formed oversight committee. The second award was given in January 2020 to then Chair, Richard Burr [(R)], and Vice Chair, Mark Warner [(D)], of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for their investigation into, and unanimous bipartisan report on, Russian interference in the 2016 election.
What? There was an “unanimous bipartisan report” on Russian election interference? I’m amazed any Republican at the federal level would get this award, given how much they have obstructed justice (e.g., no witnesses in the Senate for Trump’s trial after impeachment).
And since the award description says the oversight has to be “bipartisan,” I doubt Democrats at the federal level qualify, since their efforts to get at the truth are almost always stymied by the deceitful Republicans.
Is Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) angling for the Levin Award? Or maybe Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has confided in her about his delicate personal situation. Because there’s probably no one in the Republican Party whom Graham can confide in.
So it may have been more about Feinstein being a decent human being, and we know that decent human beings are rare in the Republican Party. Just to be clear, I don’t think Graham is a decent human being, regardless of whether or not the rumors about him are true.
I won’t be nominating either Feinstein or Graham for the Levin Award. Come to think of it, I can’t think of anyone who deserves the Levin Award this year. Can you?
To submit a nomination, go to the Levin Center’s nomination page. I’m not aware of any restrictions on nominators, but presumably the nominator must not be the nominee.
