Dems Making a List
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 8, 2006 at 7:48 am PST • Views: 312
Duck! Here come the subpoenas! Democrats ‘have a little list’ of investigations. (Hat tip: karmic_inquisitor.)
The Democrats’ takeover of the House of Representatives will give the party more power on Capitol Hill than it has enjoyed since 1994, including control of powerful committees, responsibilities for the federal budget and the opportunity to investigate the White House.
That raises the prospect of what conservatives fear will be a “blizzard of subpoenas” being issued.“As the Lord High Executioner said in The Mikado, ‘I have a little list’,” John Dingell, the veteran Michigan Democrat, said recently.
Mr Dingell, who was first elected to Congress in 1955, earned a reputation as an aggressive chairman of the Commerce Committee during Ronald Reagans’s administration. It is a role he intends to play again. Mr Dingell has announced that he plans investigations into everything from the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina to energy policy by way of environmental policy, the Food and Drug Administration, port security, nuclear waste management and trade policy.
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