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Oversight committee to revisit the Clinton years
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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: Oversight committee to revisit the Clinton years |
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 Oversight committee to revisit the Clinton years
Lawmakers will delve back into the Clinton years for some historical perspective on an issue of immediate concern to Congress and the Bush administration: the idea of White House aides delivering political briefings in agency offices.Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, agreed Monday to request documents from the National Archives that might show how the Clinton administration approached giving political briefings in federal buildings, according to a letter Waxman sent to Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who made the initial request earlier this year.
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“It will be helpful background to learn whether the Office of Political Affairs in the Clinton administration gave similar political briefings to agencies and, if so, what rules governed those briefings,” Waxman wrote.
The current controversy landed Lurita Doan, the administrator of the General Services Administration, before Waxman’s committee earlier this year as well as a recommendation in May to President Bush by the Office of Special Counsel to remove her from her position as agency head.
The special counsel determined that, after a political presentation in the GSA headquarters by White House political aide J. Scott Jennings, Doan asked, “How can we help our candidates?” In so doing, the counsel found that Doan violated the Hatch Act, a law which forbids employees from engaging in political activity when on duty or in a government building.
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