Media Coverage Archive

Jointly hosted by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), the Levin Center at Wayne Law, and the Lugar Center, the 14th Oversight Boot Camp took place from February 24–25, 2022. At this rigorous two-day training, 25 congressional staffers from both Democratic and Republican offices and 14 different congressional committees learned how to successfully conduct a congressional oversight investigation.

A virulent claim is circulating in right-wing media and among some Republicans: The United States might be working on biolabs in Ukraine. This assertion, which echoes Russian propaganda and implies that the United States and Ukraine are collaborating on something nefarious and dangerous, has been sharply refuted by Biden officials and independent experts.

There is one thing Americans apparently agree on: our government is in crisis.

Hostility and distrust between people who disagree politically is getting worse. The forces driving this polarization discourage elected leaders from working together and erode trust in democratic institutions.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Millennial Action Project (MAP) and the Lugar Center released a new report showing that current members of the House of Representatives who are under 45 years old cooperate on bipartisan legislation far more often on average than House members 45 and older. The new report is based on 2019 statistical data from the Bipartisan Index, an analytical tool launched in 2015 by the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Continued U.S. leadership through taxpayer-funded research, including public-private research partnerships, will be critical to promoting economic recovery and meeting the food demands of a global population of nearly 10 billion by 2050.