Senators: Keep Iraq watchdog office

[sabra]

http://www.onelocalnews.com/akronfarmreport/ViewArticle.aspx?id=22205&source=2

Senators: Keep Iraq watchdog office

WASHINGTON - Senate supporters of an investigator‘s office that has unearthed waste and fraud in the rebuilding of Iraq say they will try to keep it alive, setting up a potential showdown with a Republican lawmaker who helped pass legislation to shut it down.

The agency‘s work has resulted in four criminal convictions and, most recently, evidence that a Halliburton subsidiary exploited federal regulations to hide details on its contract performance.

The inspector general‘s office "has proven to be a much-needed watchdog auditing reconstruction contracts in Iraq and spotlighting numerous cases of waste, fraud and abuse," Collins, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Friday.

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Democrats said the office was being killed by Hunter, R-Calif., and other administration loyalists to bury bad news. Bowen, who was appointed by President Bush and worked for him when Bush was governor of Texas in 1994, has surprised many with the aggressiveness his office has shown in its investigations.

[Ignacio Upton]

1. Hunter wants to run for President

He will end up like Katherine Harris if he is the nominee...our candidate won't even have to campaign for the last month.

[williesgirl]

2. Yet another reason to limit laws enacted to the topic shown - these

700 page legislative books that reps are voting on are too large for anyone to really understand what they've thrown in there. recommended