Author: Claire Leavitt

Claire Leavitt is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Policy Studies at Grinnell College. In the fall of 2022, she will join the faculty of Smith College in Northampton, Mass., as an Assistant Professor of Government. Leavitt received a Ph.D in Government from Cornell University in 2021. Her research interests include legislative institutions; Congressional oversight and investigations; partisan polarization and gridlock in federal and state legislatures; political networks (among legislators, legislative staff and interest groups); federalism; and the role of gender in legislative behavior. Leavitt spent the 2019 calendar year in Washington, D.C. working for the majority staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform as the Project on Government Oversight’s (POGO) 2019 Congressional Oversight Fellow.

A row of senators seated in front of a screen showing the January 6th Attack

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January 6th Committee Tackled Unprecedented Attack With Time-Tested Inquiry

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack released its 845-page final report on Dec. 22, 2022, Claire Leavitt writes.

December 23, 2022

Pro-Trump protesters approach the entrance to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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A Public Hearing Differs from An Investigation–What That Means For The Jan. 6 Committee

“On Thursday, June 9, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol holds the first of several public hearings,” Congressional Oversight scholar Claire Leavitt writes. “The committee aims to lay out the results of months of investigative work into the involvement of President Donald Trump and his political allies in the 2021 insurrection and other attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

June 7, 2022

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