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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:14 PM Nov 2012

Ways and Means issues subpoena for Obamacare P.R. documents

The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, demanding that she reveal details of how the agency is promoting the health reform law, according to the committee.

The election may have iced efforts to repeal the law on the whole, but House Republicans are indicating that they’re full speed ahead on intense oversight of how the Obama administration is enacting the legislation.

The subpoena demands that Sebelius turn over documents about how taxpayer dollars are being used to promote the law through public relations, advertising and message testing. The committee is asking for all documents covering the period from January 2008 to today.

It comes from committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and oversight subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-La.), who is facing a run-off election next month.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83872.html#ixzz2CF3CWuht








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Ways and Means issues subpoena for Obamacare P.R. documents (Original Post) cali Nov 2012 OP
They just love to play their games Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #1
Searing Hate for some of my fellowman Whisp Nov 2012 #2
Do their subpoenas have any more authority than those issued during the Bush* Administration? Bandit Nov 2012 #3

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
1. They just love to play their games
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:42 PM
Nov 2012

time to kick them to the curb so they can live in the gutter............

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
3. Do their subpoenas have any more authority than those issued during the Bush* Administration?
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 08:17 PM
Nov 2012

We should treat them exactly the same way..

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