Reply #64: ya mean Conyers?

[Zan_of_Texas]

He is a ranking minority member -- I think in order to have subpoena power, he has to have the majority chair or members of the committee join in the investigation. Could be wrong, but I think that is why he has had to have "briefings" instead of full-fledged congressional hearings -- the Rs won't play.

Here's my suggestion. (You will quickly ascertain that I am tired of playing by the rules of "smile nicely", when the other side has already overturned the board and is running rampant.)

Bob Ney of Ohio bottled up the Rush Holt bill completely last year - no hearing, no nothing. Somebody needs to get some nice photos of Mr. Ney doing something, anything, he is not supposed to do (aside from "boring" things like not blocking election reform -- it's just not good TV material, not visual enough!). I hope that he DOES do something that Middle America would frown on -- if so, let's just d o c u m e n t that.