GOP Plans Congressional Investigation Into September Jobs Number Conspiracy

[Bill USA]

[font size="3"] NOt with my tax dollars. THe GOP should fund this with their own money. [/font]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/11/994151/gop-plans-congressional-investigation-into-september-jobs-number-conspiracy/


House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Fox News on Wednesday that he would hold hearings into the September job numbers, buying into a widely-discredited conspiracy theory that President Obama faked last month’s figure to improve his re-election chances.

After the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released an unexpectedly strong monthly jobs report last Friday — finding a dramatic drop in unemployment to 7.8 percent and revised the number of jobs added in July and August up from initial estimates, a group of conservatives led by former GE CEO Jack Welch — suggested that the numbers could have been fudged. Issa has now promised to look into the matter:

FOX HOST: We asked [Issa] … whether or not he was concerned about Friday’s jobs report and that big drop in the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8%, which some economists have called fluky and as a result there have been questions about the Labor Department’s methodology in calculating the unemployment report. Now, Chairman Issa says he wants to have hearings on this, take a listen.

ISSA: The way it is being done with the constant revisions, significant revisions, tells us that it is not as exact science as it needs to be and there’s got to be a better way to get those numbers or don’t put them out if they’re going to be wrong by as much as half a point.

FOX HOST: Now, Greta [van Susteren] asked him when he wants to have these hearings…and he said, that, “we very much intend to work every day through November and December to get these kind of things done. We’re hoping that this is a good nonpartisan time,” he said.

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[Bill USA]

1. UPDATE: now, they say they are not planning an investigation into Unemployment number just released.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/spokesman_no_darrell_issa_hearing_on_unemployment_numbers-218151-1.html?pos=htmbtxt

Spokesman: No Darrell Issa Hearing on Unemployment Numbers
By Jonathan Strong
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 11, 2012, 2:44 p.m.


A spokesman for House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he is not planning a hearing on recently issued unemployment numbers that showed improvement to the economy.

“The Oversight Committee has not announced or decided to hold hearings on the September unemployment report,” spokesman Frederick Hill said.

The Fox News Business Network reported that Issa “plans to hold hearings on unemployment numbers released Friday,” citing an interview host Greta Van Susteren did with Issa on Wednesday after a hearing on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

On camera, Issa criticized the Bureau of Labor Statistics, saying, “The way it is being done with the constant revisions, significant revisions, tells us that it is not as exact [a] science as it needs to be and there’s got to be a better way to get those numbers or don’t put them out if they’re going to be wrong by as much as half a point.”
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[Gman]

2. They told him to sit down and shut up

[LiberalFighter]

3. I guess he is not the real chair of the committee. They just have him as the puppet.

[flakey_foont]

4. Yeah, but

now he'll have to find another pointless investigation into a non-issue instead of actually trying to do something
productive for the country.