Probes of Bush policies in works. Mass. lawmakers to launch hearings

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | December 23, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers are set to launch a blizzard of investigations in the new Congress, probing issues such as wartime contracting, post-Katrina housing assistance, and the Bush administration's relationship with Cuba and other countries in Latin America.

In what could be closely watched proceedings, two members of the Massachusetts delegation -- representatives William D. Delahunt of Quincy and Martin T. Meehan of Lowell -- are planning joint committee hearings to examine the administration's Iraq war policies, particularly the reasons for the military's lagging efforts to train Iraqi troops. Delahunt is in line to become chairman of the House International Relations Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations, and Meehan will take over the same subcommittee on the House Armed Services Committee.

Armed with the power to force sworn testimony for the first time after 12 years in the minority in Congress, members of the state's all-Democratic congressional delegation are positioned to play major roles in investigating policies and actions that cut across the federal government and the business community.

"We could be the Bush administration's worst nightmare come to pass, in terms of the questions we'll be able to ask from positions of power," said Representative Edward J. Markey of Malden, the dean of the Massachusetts delegation. "There are a lot of secrets that have been hidden from the American people in terms of the way business has been done for the past six years."

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Investigate! Crush! Destroy!

And thus the new millenium finally begins.

I know, I know, it's "The Imperial March", and it's supposed to signify the BAD guys are on deck...

but it's so appropriate for when somebody powerful is gonna do something scary...:evilgrin:

I see the wind blowing. I am the weather vane. This is the time of great change.

Is she real? :shrug:

I hang out on a British art forum.

It was too good to not show off. A very disgruntled and unimpressed cat. :)

Welcome to it. Democrats with the power of the subpoena. The power to convene committee hearings. The power to ask and demand answers to questions. And the Republicans huffing and puffing about how such affronts to Mr. Bush like this never happened when they were in charge. Yeah, and we never flushed half a trillion Treasury dollars down the toilet either, you tax-fattened hyenas.