“The unilateral decision made by House Republicans to shut down this critical office should be reversed immediately,” said Senator Harry Reid, (D- Nevada) who is likely to become the majority leader.
In the Senate, Carl Levin, the (D-Michigan) who is in line to become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that seeking a new strategy for Iraq would be his primary focus, but that he would also look carefully at military contracting.
“There have been serious allegations and evidence of misconduct among suppliers,” Mr. Levin said. “And the taxpayers, of course, get socked on that. And the troops are not properly taken care of when that happens.”
Some credit should go to Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) who will introduce one of the oversight bills with her co-authors, Russell Feingold, (D-Wisconsin), and Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut)“It is inconceivable that we would remove this aggressive oversight while the American taxpayer is still spending billions of dollars on Iraq reconstruction projects,” Collins said.
Wow, there are still some logical Republicans!
