Leahy is forming a new subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

[cali]

to be chaired by Senator Levin. This is a really, really good sign. From the NYT:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to create a Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law to examine issues like torture, war crimes and human trafficking, the incoming chairman of the panel said on Wednesday.

In a speech outlining an agenda of “restoration, repair and renewal,” the new chairman, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, said that the new subcommittee would bring a focus to efforts to protect civil liberties.

The announcement seemed to underscore Mr. Leahy’s intention to use oversight more aggressively than Republicans had.

“This has been an unfortunate chapter in Congress’s history,” Mr. Leahy said of the recent years of Republican control.

“I have never seen a Congress so willfully derelict in its duties as during this administration,” he added.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/us/14oversight.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Very good news!

I hope the hearings are televised and that they get the media attention they deserve.

[cali]

3. Hi, ayeshahaqqiqa

I'm pretty sure that C-Span 2 will cover at least some of the hearings of this subcommittee.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I hope so

but I also hope the hearings gain a mention in the MSM as well.

[wryter2000]

2. Yahoo!

Leahy and Levin. A real one-two punch.

Hurry January! :woohoo: