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Tuesday,October 16, 2007

HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION ON IRAQ CORRUPTION

Today the house with a vote of 395 - 21 PASSES the  " IRAQ CORRUPTION RESOLUTION", introduced friday, Oct. 12th,2007, by chairman Waxman and Tierney. In his statement on the house floor, Chair. Waxman called the State Department abuses of classification system  "outragious" and demanded answers to questions about corruption in Iraq.

H.RES.734 expresses the sense of the House that the state department has abused its classification authority by witholding from congress and the American people information about the extent of corruption in the Maliki government . The Resolution further condemns the State Department for "RETROACTIVELY classifying documents that had been widely distributed previously as UN-CLASSIFIED , and by directing its employees not to answer questions in an open forum that call for " Broad statements/assesments which judge or characterize the quality of Iraqi investigations were thwarted/stifled for political (Judge Rahdi, head of the department investigating corruption in the Iraqi Government has had 31 of his investigators ASSASINATED)(he and his family have survived 2 rocket attacks upon their home) reasons.." Cosponsors include Reps. Tierney, Maloney , Lynch, Yarmuth, Braley, Norton McCollum, Van Hollen, and Schakowsky.

Chair. Waxman today released a NEW FACT SHEET THAT RESPONDS TO INACCURATE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS contained in the State Department's Oct. 15 response to the Committe.

A quote from the Burning Bush "02"

President Bush has said that "limiting the size and scope of government" is one of the " values I hold dear to my heart."

YET, total federal expenditures have increased from $1.8 Trillion  to $2.5 Trillion since he has been in office.

The cover up is in progress. You see, especially when the news gets out that funds given to the Iraqi Gov. are finding there way into the hands of  insurgents killing our soldiers.

http://oversight.house.gov/