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TSA Continues to Ignore Congress and GAO

Air Cargo Still Vulnerable

April 30, 2007 (Washington, DC) -- Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) released a report conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Federal efforts to secure U.S.-Bound Air Cargo.

Fiscal 2008 Appropriations: Defense

House Appropriations - Subcommittee on Defense

Subcommittee Hearing

April 30, 1:30 p.m

Spyware Prevention and Securing Aircraft Cockpits

House Judiciary - Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security

Subcommittee Markup

May 1, Time TBA

Fiscal 2008 Budget: Intelligence

House Select Intelligence Committee

Full Committee Markup

May 1, Time TBA

FDA Mission

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Full Committee Hearing

UPDATED: May 1, 1 p.m.

Witness Subpoena for Investigation into the Firing of U.S. Attorneys

House Judiciary - Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law

Subcommittee Markup

"To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is 'absent without leave.' He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games...I hope the President seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill the Congress has sent him. I will respect him greatly for such a rare act of courage, and so too, I suspect, will most Americans."
- Lieutenant General William E. Odom

Speaker Pelosi spoke on the floor in memory of Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, who passed away last weekend:

TUESDAY

Rep. Rosa DeLauro testified before the Education and Labor Committee on the need for legislation to close the pay gap between men and women:

WEDNESDAY

Rep. John Murtha closed debate on the Iraq Accountability Act, which passed 218-208:

THURSDAY

Speaker Pelosi, joined by Iraq War Veteran John Bruhn, spoke on the need for the President to sign the Iraq Accountability Act:

FRIDAY

* Letter to Secretary Gates (pdf) >>

* Letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding (pdf) >>

April 27, 2007

The Honorable George Tenet

c/o Robert B. Barnett, Esq.

Williams & Connolly LLP

725 Twelfth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

Dear Mr. Tenet:

I am writing to invite you to testify at a hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 10, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2157, Rayburn House Office Building. The purpose of the hearing is to learn your views about one of the claims used to justify the war in Iraq -- the assertion that Iraq sought to import uranium from Niger -- and related issues.