Ron Wyden: “It is long past time to drain the safety swamp that has become the Minerals Management Service.”

The Department’s recent decision in August 2026 to quietly strip explicit prohibitions against political interference from its Scientific Integrity Policy is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine scientific facts and…

The White House should make MITRE’s findings public as soon as possible.

As Congress debates solutions to protect our privacy and civil liberties, the MITRE report could provide important information about how these cameras and other surveillance programs are already impacting Americans’ rights.

This interpretation is wildly inconsistent with the longstanding treatment of other provisions that use identical or near-identical language.