Not since the attempt to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998 has C-SPAN been as popular as it was this past week as we watched the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate negotiate a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, fight over emergency funds and bid farewell to certain members.
If you missed the coverage, you’ll be glad to know that California’s representatives have been right in the thick of the action, making colorful statements on the public record.
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With another 428,000 new unemployment filings last week, the flood of bad economic news continues to point to a recessionary “double dip” that President Barack Obama’s $859 billion stimulus program was supposed toprevent.
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Ron Bloom, the top White House auto bailout official who has flatly denied accusations that he once said his work on the bailouts was "all for the unions," now admits that he might, in fact, have said those words. Just a few weeks ago, in sworn testimony before the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, Bloom said denied four times that he said "I did this all for the unions" at a July 2009 party attended by most of the bailout team. But in a new letter to committee c
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Investigators for the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform are asking the White House official who oversaw the government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler whether he told the truth in recent testimony before the committee. Ron Bloom, Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy, is quoted in a 2009 newspaper account and a 2010 book saying of the auto bailouts that he "did this all for the unions." But when Bloom appeared before the committee on June 22,
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is under fire for allegedly retaliating against a whistle-blower on Project Gunrunner, the failed sting that sent thousands of high-powered guns across the border to Mexican drug gangs. Vince Cefalu, a 24-year ATF agent based in Dublin, Calif., has been fired after speaking out about the scandal on television and in testimony before the House Oversight Committee chaired by California Congressman Darrell Issa.
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By:
Darrell Issa
06/27/11 8:34 PM
Unless Congress takes action now, the future of the United States Postal Service is in jeopardy. But if Congress will enact a sensible, sweeping reform of the Postal Service, we can protect taxpayers from another bailout and make it possible for USPS to implement a sustainable business plan for the future.
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Watergate clichés though they are, two questions beg to be asked about the exploding Fast and Furious scandal at the U.S. Department of Justice: What did Attorney General Eric Holder know and when did he know it concerning the underlying concept, operational protocols and legal status of the Operation Fast and Furious program in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms?
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging President Obama to quickly hire inspectors general at federal agencies where some of the watchdog positions have been left unfilled for years.
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Vista, was too diplomatic this week in saying the Obama administration’s treatment of a Department of Homeland Security whistle-blower appeared to be an act of retaliation.
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has just fired his press secretary for forwarding email correspondence with the Politico to a writer working on a book. Issa's Deputy Communications Director, Kurt Bardella, has been "terminated" for sharing emails from Politico with Mark Leibovich, a New York Times reporter who is writing a book about Capitol Hill reporters and power players.
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