Immunity for Goodling?

From the Judiciary Committee: House Judiciary Committee to Vote on Granting former Justice Official Monica Goodling Immunity (Washington, DC)-House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) scheduled a meeting of the Committee for TOMORROW, April 18, at 10:15 a.m. to consider granting… Continue

Oversight Follow-Up Hearing on Walter Reed

The Oversight Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs is holding a hearing to examine the Pentagon's subsequent response to the Subcommittee's March 5 field hearing on allegations of unacceptable care and living conditions of wounded soldiers housed at the Walter Reed… Continue

Appropriations Chairmen on Iraq

An op-ed today by the respective chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations committees closes with the following: Bush’s choice on funding the troops House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey and Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd Christian Science Monitor – April 17, 2007… Continue

"Free D.C."

D.C. Voting Rights Supporters March to Capitol Mary Beth Sheridan, Hamil R. Harris and David Nakamura Washington Post – April 16, 2007 Despite winds and a light rain, thousands of chanting marchers led by D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty headed down Pennsylvania… Continue

GAO on Outsourced Science

From the Science Committee: GAO Finds Science Agencies Have Few Activities Left To Outsource To Private Sector (Washington, DC) Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN), Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, today received from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) a report… Continue

DOJ Fails to Comply with House Judiciary Subpoena

From the Judiciary Committee: Justice Department Fails to Comply with House Judiciary Subpoena (Washington, DC)- Today, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued the following statement in response to the Justice Department’s failure to comply with the Committee’s subpoena… Continue

"It's a New Direction"

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid penned the following joint op-ed in yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel regarding Democrats’ accomplishments in the first 100 days. An excerpt on Iraq: Democrats’ Reid, Pelosi: It’s a new direction Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid,… Continue

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