Stonewall Johnson’s Final Stand

For months Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson has been dodging Congress. It looks like he’ll be up to more of the same today.

Federal Judge Rules Cheney Must Follow Law

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an injunction this weekend ordering Dick Cheney to keep all his official records until the end of the Bush administration, at which point he must turn them over to the National Archives.

Pentagon Says ‘No Thanks’ To Cleaning Up Military Bases

The Environmental Protection Agency and its beleaguered administrator, Stephen Johnson, have managed to stay out of the news for about two months. But the agency was the focus of a Senate environmental committee hearing yesterday on yet another pollution law being ignored by the Bush administration.

Emails Suggest FDA In Bed With Drug Industry

Democrats, Republicans and even the Food and Drug Administration’s White House-appointed commissioner have said that the cash-strapped FDA is dire straits.

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Hearings Set For Wall Street Crisis

On an afternoon where the Dow Jones industrial average sank 440 points, the House oversight committee scheduled two days of hearings to look at a global financial crisis that has no end in sight. The committee has requested Richard Fuld, CEO of the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers investment More…

Report: Oil Industry Held to ‘Honor System’

Mismanagement of the Dept. of Interior’s royalty-in-kind program has cost the government millions in revenues from oil and natural gas companies, according to a biting report released Wednesday. The Project on Government Oversight, or POGO, a watchdog organization that issued the paper, called for the abolition of More…

Oversight Committee Blasts Blue Dog Gun Bill

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened fire on a bill Tuesday that would repeal still-standing Washington gun restrictions. The bill shoots to lift the ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, as well as ending required background checks and registration of firearms– all provisions that the Supreme More…

Cronyism, Cocaine, Oil…and now Congressional Oversight

That was quick.

Yesterday the Interior Dept. inspector general unveiled three lurid reports of sexual misconduct, drug dealing and partying with oil executives at Interior’s Mineral Management Services.

Today the House oversight committee said there will be a hearing next Wednesday to scrutinize MMS and their oil and More…

Is Military Doing Enough for Sexual Assaults?

That was the question being asked at a grim congressional hearing this morning, “Sexual Assaults in the Military: Part II.”

Part I gained some notoriety when Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the Pentagon’s sexual assault prevention and response office, defied a subpoena from the House oversight national security More…

McCain and the Aircraft Lobby

At 12:01 a.m. Pacific time Saturday, 27,000 Boeing Co. machinists, protesting a lack of job security, went on strike. A lengthy walkout would halt the assembly of several pricey Boeing planes, including its 777.

The aeronautic giant’s 777 is supposed to have enough fuel capacity to win the Air Force’s More…