House GOP: Paying Lawyers $500-an-hour in Taxpayer Dollars to Sue the President

A month after Republicans in the House Rules Committee rejected 11 amendments from Democrats that would've increased transparency and accountability in funding the lawsuit, its long-awaited, no-bid contract negotiated in secret has been revealed.  The GOP lawsuit to sue President Obama will cost taxpayers $500 per hour, and it will apparently…

"not exceed the sum of $350,000…"  [8/25]

Many questions still remain, however:

• Legal fees more than quadrupled during the Speaker's quest to defend DOMA, repeatedly raising the cap, seeking modifications to the original DOMA contract, and spending a total of $2.3 million instead of the initial $500,000 – a tremendous amount of taxpayer money used to defend discrimination.  Will Speaker Boehner and his colleagues seek modifications to this contract time and time again as well?

o   If so, how many times will Mr. Boehner and House Republicans raise the cap?

o   How much will the final authorized funds to sue the President amount to?