Probes of Bush policies in works

[rodeodance]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/23/probes_of_bush_policies_in_works?mode=PF


Probes of Bush policies in works
Mass. lawmakers to launch hearings

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | December 23, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers are set to launch a blizzard of investigations in the new Congress, probing issues such as wartime contracting, post-Katrina housing assistance, and the Bush administration's relationship with Cuba and other countries in Latin America.

In what could be closely watched proceedings, two members of the Massachusetts delegation -- representatives William D. Delahunt of Quincy and Martin T. Meehan of Lowell -- are planning joint committee hearings to examine the administration's Iraq war policies, particularly the reasons for the military's lagging efforts to train Iraqi troops. Delahunt is in line to become chairman of the House International Relations Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations, and Meehan will take over the same subcommittee on the House Armed Services Committee.
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"We could be the Bush administration's worst nightmare come to pass, in terms of the questions we'll be able to ask from positions of power," said Representative Edward J. Markey of Malden, the dean of the Massachusetts delegation. "There are a lot of secrets that have been hidden from the American people in terms of the way business has been done for the past six years."

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Representative Barney Frank of Newton will become chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, which has sweeping authority over the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commissions, and the nation's housing policies. Frank has outlined an agenda that includes a year long examination on the issue of wage inequality in the United States.
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[Gman]

1. Played golf with a good very liberal friend today who said

"I'm looking forward to a stack of indictments as high as that wall." I said, "It's gonna make the Reagan administration look like a picnic."

I hope.

[bluerum]

2. You can't see me but I am smiling!! nt

[calimary]

7. Me, too. Build the case. Build the case.

:headbang:

Wouldn't surprise me if that stack of indictments was high enough to match the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed - ON HIS WATCH.

[Robbien]

3. This is exactly how I remember Nixon's got started. Probes.

I distinctly remember probes being headlined, not impeachment, probes. I like how this is starting to sound.

[nashville_brook]

4. i 'n i

investigate and impeach.

:evilgrin: jah man.

[Az_lefty]

5. please let it be so...this is what will force Jr. to step down...

or be impeached and possibly removed from office.

[shanti]

8. he will never step down voluntarily

too stiffnecked.

[MasonJar]

6. As G. F. Handel would say, "Hallelujah!"

[CatWoman]

9. it's too late to recommend this thread

so I'll :kick: it instead.

[Imagevision]

10. Repugs will fight tooth & nail to delay answering subeona's, providing info especially

Seenyor Attorney General Gonazalez...

[w4rma]

11. Awesome. (nt)

[lumpy]

12. You can be sure the monkey wrenches to squelch

the probes are being forged as we speak. Nevertheless let the blizzard begin.

[natrat]

13. electric probes with 10,000 volts