Supplemental Scrutiny
by Dana Chasin, 12/5/2006
The House Democratic caucus may have gotten our memo.
Following a caucus meeting today, to-be-House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that when President Bush sends up his "emergency" supplementary war funding request (expected arrival: next February; pricetag: as much as $160 billion):
There will be vigorous involvement by our committees [and] very substantial oversight and involvement by the Congress... We believe there has not been accountability, there has not been oversight, there has not been a question of policy in the last six years. To that extent, the Congress has been complicit and complacent. We’re going to change that.
