Your Irregular Doc Hastings Watch
Subpoena power. It is what you’ve been waiting for when the Republican regained the House.
The House Natural Resources Committee is also investigating. Today, Chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., demanded that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar make five high-ranking department officials — including his top adviser and a former White House liaison — available for interviews.
Hastings complained that the department has refused to turn over documents related to the moratorium report, telling Salazar the committee “is left with no choice other than to continue to pursue compliance with the subpoena.”
Spokesman Spencer Pederson said the chairman “is not taking anything off the table,” including a contempt of Congress charge, to enforce the subpoena.
Interior Department spokesman Adam Fetcher said the department turned over nearly 2,000 pages of documents and would “continue to cooperate with the committee’s legitimate oversight interests.” He also complained that the congressional investigation was “made up of an ever-changing and unsettled set of requests … to relitigate an issue that was resolved two years ago.”
The Excitement builds… everything is snow-balling and it’s one scandal after another…
And, uh, one Jobs Bill after another. They’re all Jobs Bills right now… and, I suppose, Jobs Subpoenas.
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first cabinet member in American history to be cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to produce documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious.
That’s a joke, right?
The George Soros and Obama Government One Again Restricts our Natural resources.
At least this isn’t an instance of the George Soros and Obama Government trampelling on the Constitution, per image on that last blog.
In other Doc Hastings news:
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., powerful chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, wants the historical park in his district. Usually, Hastings reacts with hostility when words like “park†or “monument†or “wild†or “conservation†get mentioned.
The idea is to turn Hanford (and Oak Ridge) into a new Disneyland. Sounds like a plan every Congressional figure in the states of Washington and Tennessee can get behind, and everyone else can kind of shrug at.
But Cantwell and seatmate Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., ought to negotiate a trade before bestowing this imprimateur on Tri-Cities history plus not-entirely happy memories of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and “Dr. Strangelove.â€
They should trade a dead nuke for live bald eagles, orcas, a blue-green river and island bluffs.
Take that up with Occupy Hanford No Nukes Northwest.
Wikipedia. Par for the course for some of these politicians:
The whole article smacks of having been written by Hastings himself or one of his staff lackeys. The following paragraph has no supporting documentation and is extremely offensive and I feel full of false information:
The line about Jay Inslee’s “dishonest campaign” is particularly humourous. (And wikipedia watchers of this ilk should watch the Hastings article as Jay Inslee makes his run for governor). But this editor doesn’t do himself any favors with
I have made comments above. I will rewrite the thing if you want but I suggest you find an objective person. Hastings is a corrupt right wing fanatic who hopefully will soon be out of congress.)Â [As well…]
Further is to the right of practically every other congressman in Congress and holds sacred to the principles of the Tea Party
Actually the most “offending” part of this bunch is the “hopefully will soon be out of congress”. It looks as though the Democrats aren’t fielding a candidate, and that he will end up facing a Tea Party candidate in the General election (which, whatever else he is, he isn’t “to the right” of “every other Congressman” and holds principles sacred to the Tea Party in as much as the Republican Establishment does.)