Pelosi, Boehner fight over scope of ‘stolen vote’ probe

Pelosi, Boehner fight over scope of ‘stolen vote’ probe
By Alexander Bolton
September 08, 2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) are heading toward a clash over the size and scope of a special investigation into a controversial vote last month that Republicans are calling “the stolen vote.”

In a letter to Pelosi Friday, Boehner asked for $1 million for professional investigative staff, consultants and other expenses. He also asked for an expansion of the probe to include “exceedingly controversial events in the House that occurred in close succession in early August,” such as the malfunction of the automatic voting system and alterations of the Congressional Record.

Pelosi made clear to Boehner two days earlier that she was in no mood for swelling the investigation into mini Watergate hearings.

“There is no reason for this review to become protracted as the committee’s charge is limited to a very small number of matters,” Pelosi wrote in a terse letter to Boehner Wednesday.

Boehner, however, sees the matter differently.

“Madame Speaker, our votes in the House are cast on behalf of the American people — and public confidence in the integrity of the legislative actions in the House can only be restored by fully and aggressively investigating the circumstances surrounding each of these deeply disturbing events,” wrote Boehner. “Simply put, the Select Committee must follow the evidence wherever it leads — and it must have all the tools necessary to complete that critically important task.”

The investigation stems from a rancorous dispute over a vote on an amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill during a late evening in early August.

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thorough investigation into the 2004 presidential "stolen" vote, as well as the Christine Jennings "stolen" vote and the phone jamming "stolen" vote scandal in New Hampshire.

up to him. He's just trying to rally his base over nothing.

“Madame Speaker, our votes in the House are cast on behalf of the American people —"

We all know they do not vote the will of the people. :puke:

"— and public confidence in the integrity of the legislative actions in the House can only be restored by fully and aggressively investigating the circumstances surrounding each of these deeply disturbing events,”

Publc has no confidence...this just one of many 'disturbing events'...the biggest
disturbing event is that no one has the balls to impeach or to stop bushco and hold
them accountable.

What happened to Conyers Ohio investigation?
Why wait until after Ohio has begun to destroy 2004 voting information?
Do he anticipate that he will have new findings that Conyers didn't reveal?

of all the times the GOP has hijacked democracy in the House. There are plenty of examples, beginning with the illegal GOP arm twisting done on the House floor to get the Medicare Part D act passed. Oh, and don't forget the time the GOP called the police to arrest Dems who tried to caucus during a late night session when the GOP was trying to ram a pension bill down their throats?

Republican Committee Chair Calls Police to Arrest Democrats

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1456255