Imagine if Henry Waxman were chair of the House Government Reform Committe

Screw the 2008 election. It is imperitive we win back the House in 2006. The house is the key to break the neocon's back. The house is where appropriations bills begin. The house is where the impeachment process starts.

Imagine if Henry Waxman were chair of the House Government Reform Committeecommittee instead of Tom Davis. In place of sham "investigations" into steroid use in baseball, this would be the agenda:

New Questions about Payments to Halliburton
Friday, December 02, 2005 -- In a letter to Chairman Tom Davis, Rep. Waxman discloses that the Army Corps of Engineers has paid Hallilburton $130 million in cost reimbursements, profits, and bonuses for billings related to fuel imports and oilfield repairs in Iraq that Defense Department auditors determined to be unreasonable and unsupported.

New Questions about Payments to Halliburton

Rep. Waxman Speaks Out Against Duncan Hunter Resolution
Friday, November 18, 2005 -- On the House floor, Rep. Waxman speaks against the Republican resolution and calls for answers to long-standing questions about the Administration's use of forged evidence as the cornerstone of the case for war in Iraq. These concerns were raised by Rep. Waxman before the war started in a letter to President Bush on March 17, 2003.

Video of Rep. Waxman's Floor Statement
Rep. Waxman's March 17, 2003 Letter to the President about Iraq Intelligence
Text of Rep. Waxman's Statement

Rep. Waxman Calls for an Investigation of U.S. Military Efforts to Influence Iraqi Media Coverage
Rep. Waxman asks that the House Government Reform Committee investigate reports that the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to present positive images of the military and the U.S. mission in Iraq.

http://democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20051130143916-94287.pdf">Letter to Chairman Davis

More at http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/index.asp

The GOP's continual stonewalling of legitimate complaints should cast them in the future. I guess I'll have to do my part to keep people aware of it.

Keep the issues, and lack of congressional oversight and investigation, in front of your friends and neighbors. The korporate media certainly will not.