Us on the left have been saying this all along and now the man in the spotlight of the “War Against Labor” has admitted it – eliminating collective bargaining does not save money! Like a dog going at a bone, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, didn’t stop until he got the answer he was looking […]
Darrell Issa is like that kid who just made hall monitor and takes his duties a little to seriously. Here’s some of what Issa wants to investigate: Issa, who will have power to subpoena government officials to appear before the committee, said he intended to conduct inquiries into the release of classified diplomatic cables by […]
We have heard for months the chest beating of Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now it’s gone from chest beating to down right slander: The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight calledPresident Obama‘s administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and […]
So this morning I read this interesting article: Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation’s financial system. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House […]
Something we aren’t used to seeing; oversight of an administration, being conducted by the administration’s own party: A congressional oversight committee opened an investigation yesterday into whether the Obama administration is circumventing a law that limits lavish pay for executives at firms benefiting from the $700 billion federal bailout. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of […]
Welcome back to the 90s: Rep. Darrell Issa is not working from a position of strength. As the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa wants to exercise some, well, oversight when it comes to the Obama administration’s controversial decision to transfer control of the Census Bureau from professionals at the […]
This is legislation we really need passed, and Waxman is considering it: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly that such a bill could ban the use […]
Of course the White House thinks their study is not credible: The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White […]
This White House isn’t even human: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman. “[T]he Committee wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding […]
Now reports are saying that 4 years of Rove email may be missing: A lawyer for the Republican National Committee told congressional staff members yesterday that the RNC is missing at least four years’ worth of e-mail from White House senior adviser Karl Rove that is being sought as part of investigations into the Bush […]