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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-10 06:01 PM
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House votes to give subpoena power to oil spill commission
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/105117-house-votes-to-bolster-oil-spill-probe

The move beefs up powers for commission probing the Gulf oil spill.

The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday that provides subpoena powers to a White House-created commission that is probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The vote was 420-1 for Rep. Lois Capps’s (D-Calif.) bill that gives the authority to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Only Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) voted against it.

“Subpoena power is absolutely essential to ensuring that BP and others involved with this spill cannot stonewall the Commission,” Capps said in a prepared statement after the vote.
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-10 06:04 PM
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1. Good news! K&R nt
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