Oversight - It's a bitch

SusanUnPC at No Quarter

Do you have an incumbent Democratic senator or representative? Have you checked your local papers to see what new powers they'll be gaining?

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The Los Angeles Times has a must-read piece today on renewed oversight and coming investigations:

Rep. Ike Skelton knows what he will do in one of his first acts as chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the Democratic-led House: resurrect the subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

The panel was disbanded by the Republicans after they won control of Congress in 1994.

Disbanded in 1994. Doesn't that go a long way in explaining the billions and billions that the GOP-controlled Congress allowed to disappear, particularly during the Iraq war?

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