Bipartisan lawmakers want congressional oversight of North Korea talks

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Bipartisan lawmakers want congressional oversight of North Korea talks
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Updated 1905 GMT (0305 HKT) May 24, 2019

 (CNN)Bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation aimed at providing congressional oversight of the Trump administration's diplomatic efforts with North Korea.

The identical bills were introduced this week in the Senate by New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner and in the House by New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican.

In addition to stressing diplomacy, the legislation calls for regular briefings and hearings as well as "Member-level briefings not later than 15 legislative days after each round of senior-level diplomatic talks."

Read more at: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics/north-korea-congressional-oversight/index.html