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Evidence continues to mount that the new Democratic majority plans to
investigate the war, energy policy, and other Bush policies, as key
committees have begun hiring lawyer-investigators whose job will be to
probe the administration. In the House, for example, the Appropriations
Committee under Rep. John Murtha’s
direction is hiring investigators who will be charged with looking into
the administration’s war policies and spending in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also, Rep. Henry Waxman,
the incoming chairman of the House Government Reform Committee who’s
been dogging the vice president’s energy task force, is also hiring
lawyers. A Democratic leadership official said that the planned
hearings and investigations into the war and other issues the
lawyer-investigators are being hired to look into will be “very
focused.” In the Senate, officials said similar hirings were underway
in a speeded up effort to have people in place for the start of the new
Congress, especially the planned early January hearings into the war
and military spending that are set to begin January 8.
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