subpoena envy

New House Oversight Chairman Wants ‘Seven Hearings a Week Times 40 Weeks’

Republican congressman Darrell Issa and his staff of hyperpartisan deputies have a fun year planned for the Obama administration. Right now, he’s planning to focus on stimulus, bailout, and government spending oversight, but an opposition party with subpoena power is bound to have more fun than that. (Whitewater, anyone?) [Politico]

New House Oversight Chairman Wants ‘Seven Hearings a Week Times 40 Weeks’