Hearings for 2007: What is being planned.

[TayTay]

The new Democratic Congress is planning a lot of oversight hearings to finally hold the Bush Administration and Republican policies accountable for what they have been doing.

UK Media reported the following:

Panels planning Katrina oversight

Source: AFX UK ProFeed
Date: December 25, 2006

(AFX) - Democrats in Congress next year are pledging closer oversight of how
$88 billion in federal aid for Hurricane Katrina is being spent. Some of the
committee reviews planned and the incoming chairpersons:


SENATE

-- Appropriations: Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has sent a letter to Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking him to speed up recommendations to
revamp the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Byrd also described as
'shameful' the department's slow distribution of money to state and local
emergency workers.

-- Homeland Security: Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., has said he will continue the
committee's work in examining FEMA's disaster aid program as well as purchases
made by federal employees with government-issued credit cards.

-- Small Business: John Kerry, D-Mass., is calling for hearings on the Small
Business Administration's disaster loan program, saying only about one-fifth of
the $10 billion in loans had reached affected areas; wants 'aggressive
contracting oversight' of work slated for small firms.

[ray of light]

1. Quiz time...

Will the media play any of the hearings?

Will they spin if for Bush and the Republicans?

If they play it, what will they show?

[TayTay]

2. The SFRC hearings will be shown

and the Armed Services Committee hearings will get a lot of play. They have the Dem 'heavy-hitters' in attendance and ready to question the Admin witnesses on the war.

That will command press time.

Small Business might or might not. Depends on the type of charges brought and the witnesses summoned to appear.