In 2010 Issa promised 40 hearings in 40 days. He's running a little slow.
It appears the good Rep. Scalise from [
hey Alan!] La is leading the charge.
01/06/11Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed over the past two years.
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The legislation...would do away with the 39 czars Obama has employed during his administration.
Paisano?
February 21, 2011Scalise's amendment was attached to the 2011 spending package, which passed the House last week, would strip funding for a select list of the so-called czars.
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The Scalise amendment was a refined version of a catch-all anti-czar bill he introduced earlier in the session. That bill called for effectively shutting down any Executive Office task force or office led by an official who had not received Senate confirmation. At the time, Scalise estimated that 39 officials would fall under that description.
- "climate czar." ..., Carol Browner, is expected to leave the position, ...
"Let her leave, and take the funding, too," Scalise said on the House floor last week.
- special master for TARP -- No more edicts on executive pay. ... who until recently was Kenneth Feinberg.
- White House Office of Health Reform... Scalise suggested the "ObamaCare czar" helped facilitate too many backroom deals in the process.
- [special envoy to oversee the closure of the Guantanamo Bay]
No more visits to foreign countries to convince them to take Guantanamo Bay detainees....
He's tasked with facilitating the closure of Guantanamo and finding homes for those prisoners deemed fit for release.
- "climate" czar, special envoy for climate change -- No more
- Task Force on the Auto Industry ...-- No more ...Scalise's amendment targets the senior Treasury adviser to that task force, Ron Bloom, who is now senior counselor for manufacturing policy.