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Credit Cards and Secret Prisons on Senate Agenda
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Like their House counterparts, Democrats in line to take over committee chairmanships in the Senate at the beginning of next year are expected to target pre-war intelligence, Halliburton and the CIA, but the credit card industry is also very nervous.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.): Dodd's likely appointment as chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee is making the credit card industry nervous, according to the trade publication American Banker. Dodd, who's served on the committee for 25 years, has been a harsh critic of what he calls "wallet-sized predatory loans."
And there's more from Dodd. The senator who currently also holds a seat on the Committee on Foreign Relations has already personally made calls to experts for hearings on the CIA's rendition flights.
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Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.): As chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, Sen. Leahy is not only expected to be tough on future Bush judicial nominees, but he is also said to be intent on pursuing domestic surveillance and wiretapping issues
Carl Levin (D-Mich.): Described by veteran investigators as a "serious guy," as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expect Sen. Levin to dig into Iraq reconstruction and contracting abuses, including Halliburton.
Levin could also take over the chairmanship of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which, despite a relatively small staff, has the potential to be a powerhouse investigative subcommittee.
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.): Rockefeller is in line to become Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. While officially his office carefully says "oversight," not investigations, are a top priority, his staffers are known to be eager to dig deep into the controversial rendition flights, NSA warrantless surveillance and CIA secret prisons.
Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.): Despite running as an Independent, Sen. Lieberman is in line for the chairmanship of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The mercurial Lieberman is hard to predict, and that makes his Democratic contemporaries nervous.
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I hope America is Waking Up and holding politicians responsible for what it is we are paying them for Otherwise its time for another Boston tea party. If our government was a private company we would have fired them all a long time ago...We should be ashamed of the way we have allowed so much abuse of power on both sides.If politicians were paid minimum wage either the minimum wage would be higher or only people who were true public servants would be politicians. Right now all policy is to benefit the few who use our tax dollars to push their agendas. Simple effective war profiteering strategy (divide and conquer)keeps the majority of people fighting over private issues of choice which our country was built on (freedom) while they clean out our bank accounts. 25% to 30% of what you work so hard for is irresponsibly wasted while politicians continue pushing their personal agendas.Why do politicians have better pay and benefits then the people who pay their salaries? Why dont we have a tax system that allows each of us to personally choose what percentage of our individual taxes we want to go to things that are important to us individually like defense, education,health, ecomomic growth and have politians focus on providing the services we pay for that supports what we are promised in the constitution that our brave service men and women are dying for "life, liberty and happiness. Come on folks there has got to be a better way....
Posted by: Deah | Nov 15, 2006 4:03:23 PM
"The credit card industry is also very nervous." Good! That shows that the Democrats are more on the side of the common people than the Repiglicans. No one is perfect, Lo2E etc., but it is better now.
Posted by: Neil' | Nov 15, 2006 7:44:08 PM
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