Will the GOP House attack science, after all?

[jpak]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/will_the_gop_house_attack_scie.html

The last time the Republicans controlled Congress, oversight hearings on energy and environmental policy were too often ideological, anti-global warming wastes of effort. Is there any hope this time will be different? It appears that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the incoming chairman of the House government reform committee and the Republicans' new chief investigator, is backing off of climate issues.

Politico reports that Issa has prepared his agenda for committee hearings in the new Congress. And, though earlier signals indicated that climate science and President Obama's move to regulate greenhouse gases would be targets, they're not on the list.

Issa is aiming to launch investigations on everything from WikiLeaks to Fannie Mae to corruption in Afghanistan in the first few months of what promises to be a high profile chairmanship of the top oversight committee in Congress.

According to an outline of the committee's hearing topics obtained by POLITICO, the House Oversight and Government Reform is also planning to investigate how regulation impacts job creation, the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the foreclosure crisis; recalls at the Food and Drug Administration and the failure of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to agree on the causes of the market meltdown.

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republican deniers suck

yup!

[emulatorloo]

1. Yes, clearly Bush had nothing to do with the economic collapse. It was all Barney Frank's doing.

There is something wrong with ISSA's brain.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Yes, there is compelling evidence of brain abnormalities

in psychopaths.