Oversight Committee to limit RNC e-mail request

[kpete]

Staff Nears Deal on RNC E-mails
By Paul Singer
Roll Call Staff
June 4, 2007

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee staffers appear close to an agreement that would limit the number of e-mails the panel will demand from the Republican National Committee as part of an investigation of political presentations given to federal agencies.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_133/news/18732-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

Oversight Committee to limit RNC e-mail request
Michael Roston
Published: Monday June 4, 2007

Rep. Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government reform is close to reaching a deal that would limit the scope of its probe into e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and used by White House employees, according to a report in today's edition of Roll Call.

"Just prior to the Memorial Day recess, ranking member Tom Davis (R-Va.) and other committee Republicans urged Waxman to scale back his request for documents from the RNC," wrote Paul Singer in Monday morning's paper. "While the Republicans wrote that Waxman’s inquiries into the political use of government resources 'constitute legitimate exercises of the committee’s oversight authority,' they argued that the breadth of the committee’s requests and subpoenas 'far exceed the legitimate needs of the committee.'"

The exchange between House Democratic and Republican members of the committee was prompted by the briefings of General Services Administration staff by the White House earlier in the year. Democratic committee members are worried that the White House was seeking to use GSA contracting to assist Republican political campaigns in 2008.

At issue in particular were "daily tallies of the number of e-mails to and from each RNC account maintained by a White House employee," which Republican staff insisted would not help the Democratic side of the committee gain more information about the White House's briefings.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Oversight_Committee_to_limit_RNC_email_0604.html

[msongs]

1. repubs will give the dems only useless emails and the dems will like it

nice doggie, here's a bone now go away. even when the repubs are in the minority they still run show.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. No DEALS!!! None! Nada! Zip! Zero! Either they hand them over

as originally requested, or Waxman might as well bang the gavel and close the investigation.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Knowing Waxman, he requested more than he needed...

...so he could pretend to toss Bush/Cheney**'s doggies a bone.

NGU.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Grrrrr

more sand in our faces. I tell you it's going to come down to a real battle to get this country back.