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ffr

(22,670 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 11:15 AM Apr 2020

Pelosi creates watchdog panel for coronavirus spending

Source: Marketwatch

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she was establishing a bipartisan select committee on the coronavirus crisis, describing it as a panel that would provide oversight on virus-related spending. The California Democrat likened the new committee, chaired by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, to a Senate panel during the World War II era that stopped waste and fraud in the national defense program and was led by Harry Truman. "What made sense then makes even more sense now," Pelosi said during a conference call with reporters.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pelosi-creates-watchdog-panel-for-coronavirus-spending-2020-04-02?mod=mw_latestnews



That's my president!
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Pelosi creates watchdog panel for coronavirus spending (Original Post) ffr Apr 2020 OP
K&R SheltieLover Apr 2020 #1
Please please please please please... STAY HEALTHY, NANCY! 50 Shades Of Blue Apr 2020 #2
K&R CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #3
Thank you madam speaker! Thekaspervote Apr 2020 #4
Excellent news. Scarsdale Apr 2020 #5
I'm sure Rs will delay naming their members to hold up the oversight. Checks to Trump and cronies Pepsidog Apr 2020 #6
and put some teeth in it! azureblue Apr 2020 #7
Coronavirus spending Rogerpatterson Apr 2020 #8
Time to 25th amendment Trump and Pence IronLionZion Apr 2020 #9
But! But! Maxheader Apr 2020 #10
Oversight imperative with the Con machine's pedal to the metal corruption. Thanks Nancy! Evolve Dammit Apr 2020 #11
Conan LiberalBear Apr 2020 #12
KR! TY, ffr! Cha Apr 2020 #13
You know what I'm going to say. ffr Apr 2020 #18
Mahalo, ffr.. for All the Cha Apr 2020 #19
Good! Give those watchdogs some teeth; they're gonna need 'em. K&R crickets Apr 2020 #14
Good Luck getting any info and compliance from the administration BadGimp Apr 2020 #15
Yes! I hope they publicly post a running tally. nt live love laugh Apr 2020 #16
Pelosi forms new select committee to oversee $2 trillion coronavirus relief package "Where there riversedge Apr 2020 #17
Trump has already called it a 'witchhunt' riversedge Apr 2020 #20

CountAllVotes

(20,876 posts)
3. K&R
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 11:30 AM
Apr 2020

Please stay well as we need you more than every now Madam Speaker!!!

For those that are stuck and cannot go out, please check into grocery stores charging $8+ for a dozen eggs plus delivery fees, plus this, plus that, ad infinitum please ... AKA SAFEWAY!!! Wow do they ever suck!

& recommend!

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. Excellent news.
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 12:31 PM
Apr 2020

Keep Ivanka tRump away from anything concerning $$$. She is being investigated for skimming several millions from daddy's inaugural celebration. Seems millions are unaccounted for, and SHE was in charge. She is likely busy right now, planning her next haul when daddy is re-elected. He had the smallest celebration, smallest crowds, smallest "celebrity" entertainers, yet took in lots and lots of cash from overseas.

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
6. I'm sure Rs will delay naming their members to hold up the oversight. Checks to Trump and cronies
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 12:51 PM
Apr 2020

probably already sent. Trump can now finally be a billionaire.

azureblue

(2,146 posts)
7. and put some teeth in it!
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 01:05 PM
Apr 2020

The GOP ignores the law. They don't care if they break laws because they know there will be no repercussions, and, if there is any, they can tie it up in court for years. Put in immediate penalties. Like, if you are caught you go straight to jail, and go through bonding out like everybody else does. Make refusing to respond, holding back data, an immediate jail-able offense and create a team of law enforcement officers to go get and jail the offenders. Yes this is draconian, but if there is no teeth, there is no punishment that will "hurt" the GOP will keep right on with their lawlessness, like a bank robber who is allowed to go free after he caught robbing a bank. .

Rogerpatterson

(17 posts)
8. Coronavirus spending
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 01:26 PM
Apr 2020

Trump's not going to be happy. I think he's already benefiting financially from it. I think he's dragging his feet on PPE etc so that a preferred vendor can gear up to the demand. He doesn't care if more people die as he has already shown. If he makes a lot of noise about it, he's guilty.

LiberalBear

(24 posts)
12. Conan
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 02:12 PM
Apr 2020

Great idea on oversight. I suggest the committee find that special forces dog Conan that Trump awarded a medal, and when someone is found to rip off the taxpayer we allow Conan to go all Django on the greedy bastard!

BadGimp

(4,015 posts)
15. Good Luck getting any info and compliance from the administration
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 05:02 PM
Apr 2020

Between now and the election Trump and the GOP will not give an inch or an ounce.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)
17. Pelosi forms new select committee to oversee $2 trillion coronavirus relief package "Where there
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 09:01 PM
Apr 2020



Pelosi forms new select committee to oversee $2 trillion coronavirus relief package

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/pelosi-forms-new-select-committee-to-oversee-2-trillion-coronavirus-relief-package-161436?cid=covid_m

“Where there’s money there’s also frequently mischief,” she says.
Pelosi announces bipartisan oversight committee to oversee coronavirus relief fund

By HEATHER CAYGLE, KYLE CHENEY and MELANIE ZANONA

04/02/2020 11:40 AM EDT

Updated: 04/02/2020 01:10 PM EDT



Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday announced the formation of a special bipartisan House committee to oversee the Trump administration’s distribution of more than $2 trillion in coronavirus relief funds over the next several months.

The committee is Pelosi’s most aggressive effort yet to streamline the House’s efforts to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his implementation of the massive coronavirus response law, as well as to ensure that recipients of the historic taxpayer bailout use funds the way Congress intended.



“Congress has taken an important step in meeting this crisis by passing three bills with over $2 trillion in emergency relief. We need to ensure those dollars are spent carefully and effectively,” Pelosi told reporters in a press call Thursday.

Pelosi said the committee would not only oversee the three bills Congress has passed so far to address the pandemic but also any future legislation related to the virus. Pelosi has been pushing to move ahead quickly with a fourth coronavirus response package, an idea she again pitched Thursday, noting the record high 6.6 million-plus unemployment claims reported earlier in the day.

“The panel will root out waste, fraud, and abuse and will protect against price gouging, profiteering, and political favoritism,” Pelosi said. ..................................
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