WHITE HOUSE NOT PROVIDING CLIMATE CHANGE DOCUMENTS TO OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

[YankeyMCC]

From the daily email from Center for American Progress Action Fund

ADMINISTRATION -- WHITE HOUSE NOT PROVIDING CLIMATE CHANGE DOCUMENTS TO OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing to investigate "political interference in the work of government climate change scientists." In the days leading up to the hearing, the committee requested "more than three dozen documents" from the White House Council on Environmental Quality "related to their climate programs." As of late last night, the "documents that were requested as recently as last week and as far back as six months ago had not been provided to the committee," CongressDaily reports. "We're still trying to get them and not happy about it," a spokesman for Rep. Thomas Davis (R-VA) said. The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Government Accountability Project said they would present "new evidence of suppression and manipulation of climate science" before the committee. Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies will testify about a "now-defunct 2004 requirement that NASA press officers listened in whenever NASA scientists spoke with reporters, either on the telephone or in person." Rick Piltz, who resigned in 2005 from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program will speak about White House interference with climate change reports and "questionable reviews of scientific research."

http://capweb.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=257662573&url_num=53&url=http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1159
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/16577792.htm

[Fridays Child]

1. They intend to keep us busy putting out fires, for the next two years.

They see that we don't have the guts to impeach them.

[PDJane]

2. The biggest problem there.....

Is the destruction of EPA libraries and documents. That is valid research that the taxpayer of the USA paid for, and I can't understand why the outcry isn't sending the administration scurrying. More proof that the USA isn't really a democracy, I suppose......

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Agreed. Why isn't there an injunction in place to stop the destruction

of the information and the libraries?

[kestrel91316]

6. Bush would just defy the injunctions.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I wonder if what they're trying to hide is satellite photos of the

Earth which might provide clues to where valuable minerals lie? I mean, think of the edge that Bush's corporate buddies would have if they could buy up the land before the public even realized what lies below?

[nam78_two]

3. K&R.nt

[Reterr]

5. kr.eom

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Bastards. The hearing is on NOW on C-SPAN 1 if you wish to watch it. n/t

[bdamomma]

8. these thugs have got to go, they just do not believe in

3 branches of government.

[seafan]

10. John Dean has written extensively on actions Congress can take:

From January 12, 2007

[goforit]

11. USE the police!!!

[mmonk]

12. Our strategy seems to be working just fine. "Oversight",

non binding resolutions and hearings with no consequences. It's a big DUH, no shit.

[In Truth We Trust]

13. Contempt of Congress!!! Issue warrants for immediate arrest NOW!

[PhilipShore]

14. Kick

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