Democrats’ halcyon days in Congress are ending with a thud. California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has a slew of investigations coming down the pipe in the weeks ahead, focusing on everything from WikiLeaks, to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, to corruption in Afghanistan,
Politico reports.
The committee also plans to examine how regulation affects job creation, recalls at the Food and Drug Administration and the inability of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to reach a consensus on the causes of the financial crisis, according to an outline of the committee’s hearing topics obtained by the news service.
"If we can take any lessons away from the results of the mid-term elections, it's that the American people will no longer tolerate a government that has institutionalized a culture of waste and abuse that acts carelessly with their tax-dollars,” Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella says in a statement.