AP: Congress to Keep Alive Iraq IG Office

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The AP story from a few minutes earlier was:
Iraq Investigative Legislation Stalls.

Congress to Keep Alive Iraq IG Office

By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 7, 2006; 4:52 PM

WASHINGTON -- The House probably will approve a bill Friday to keep open a
special investigative office that has unearthed millions of dollars in waste
and fraud in the rebuilding of Iraq.

Led by Stuart Bowen Jr., the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction tracks spending in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Iraq.
Reconstruction has moved slowly because of corruption and wartime violence.

Late Wednesday, the Senate agreed by voice vote to an amendment that would
keep the inspector's office open until the fall of 2008.

House passage of the bill would send the measure to the president to sign into law.

In a last-minute decision Thursday, House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio
agreed to add the bill to the schedule Friday, a spokesman said. The move came
after Democrats complained the bill was being pushed aside, probably, they said,
for political reasons.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701110.html