Waxman Seeks GSA Chief's Testimony (Allegations of Efforts to Help GOP)

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602648.html

Waxman Seeks GSA Chief's Testimony
Letter Discloses New Allegations on No-Bid Job and Efforts to Help GOP

A powerful House committee chairman released new details yesterday about a widening investigation into allegations of "improper conduct" by the chief of the U.S. General Services Administration.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), head of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said his investigators had obtained information that raises "further questions" about GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan's efforts to give a no-bid job to a longtime friend and professional associate.

Waxman also revealed new allegations that Doan "asked GSA officials in a January teleconference how the agency could be used to help Republican candidates," in possible violation of federal law.

He invited Doan to testify before his panel on March 20.

"You should be a model for integrity in contracting," Waxman said in his 10-page letter to Doan. "For this reason, I want to give you a chance to respond to allegations of improper conduct that have surfaced recently."

[rodeodance]

1. you have been working hard Mr. Waxman------good health to you.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Do you have to sound so sinister!

[gratuitous]

2. "Invited" to testify?

I'd greatly prefer "compelled" with a couple of the beefier U.S. Marshals in close attendance, but I trust Waxman to know what he's doing. My oh my, but the hearing schedule for his committee is getting full, isn't it? Order another round of "shocked, shocked" for our Republican friends.

[Tempest]

3. Being invited is always the first step

The second step, naturally, is compelling attendance by issuing a subpoena.

[classysassy]

5. Henry

Give them hell Henry.

[classysassy]

6. Henry's ball

Lend the rest of the dem party your ball,Mr Waxman.