The Washington Post details Darrell Issa's busy year as chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:
Issa issued 22 subpoenas and published 11 investigative GOP staff
reports, and the panel sent 748 letters seeking information from the
White House and federal agencies in his first year, according to the
panel’s records.
. . .“Do we send a lot of letters out? Yes,” he said recently. “When we
hear about it, we send letters. And when we get answers, we very quickly
say, ‘We’re all set, thank you very much, we’re done.’ ”
In
addition, Issa and his aides noted that the administration faced
virtually no serious congressional oversight in its first two years,
when Congress was controlled by Democrats.
Click here for an interview with Rep Issa.
2301s should file this under "ambition counteracting ambition."
2302s should see this as an example of congressional oversight.
It also highlights points we make about divided government.
