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Originally Posted by dc_dux
ace.... Congress has been entrusted with many roles - the most important being enacting legsislation, authorizing the allocation and expenditure of funds to run the goverment AND overseeing the actions and administration of the executive branch (the foundation of our system of check and balances).
why dont you think Congress can multi-task? This 110th Congress has been very active in enacting new legislation.
Why do you and Mike continue to believe that a law must be broken in order for Congress to fufill its oversight responsibility? Why do you believe its a trivial matter and a waste of time and money to ensure that the DoJ is managed competently and honestly?
Here is what Norm Orstein of the American Enterprise Institute said about Congressional oversight:
Were we really better off under the last Congress, which completed abrigated its oversight responsibilities?
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If I were to rank what I thought were the top 100 priorities for Congress this issue would not make the list.
When Repblicans had a majority they wasted the opportunity, now Democrats seem to be doing the same.
I have no problem with the Congressional role of oversight, in this situation we knew early Gonzales "misspoke" or "lied", nothing new has come out or will come out. And even if it did, the President has the right to terminate the political appointments. This matter could have been investigated and handled out of the spot light in a matter of days by staff.