October 10, 2007

A Tale of 2 Chairmen: Waxman and Lieberman

I was wondering when someone was going to get around to writing a story on this. The differences in the behavior of the two main oversight committees in Congress is staggering. Henry Waxman hired a staff of virtually all former prosecutors and has vigorously used his committee to uncover abuses and inefficiency, whether it's the administration's shameful treatment of veterans at Walter Reed, or the Blackwater controversy. Joe Lieberman's committee though, over there on the Senate side you can practically hear the crickets chirping.

Lieberman said he gets “angry when I hear about fraud or corruption in the spending of American dollars,” but it’s not one of his “priorities.”
Hmmmm. Maybe it's just me, but I was under the impression that doing something about such fraud and corruption was part of the senator's job as head of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. Ah well, maybe he's just biding his time until Senator Clinton assumes the presidency, and then he'll put his committee to work. Actually with that in mind (and Lieberman's general lack of loyalty to the party), I'd think Harry Reid and the Democrats would be fairly likely to strip the junior senator from Connecticut of his gavel in the next Congress and turn it over to Daniel Akaka.

Posted by armand at October 10, 2007 07:10 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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