Pelosi queries Boehner on DOMA defense cost

[William769]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a letter on Friday to House leadership seeking clarification on the cost of the congressional defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in court.

In the letter, Pelosi asks House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to provide an estimate of the cost of defending DOMA. She notes the House general counsel has been authorized to hire private lawyers to the defend the anti-gay statute.

“It is important that the House receive an estimate of the cost to taxpayers for engaging private lawyers to intervene in the pending DOMA cases,” Pelosi writes. “It is also important that the House know whether the BLAG, the General Counsel, or a Committee of the House have the responsibility to monitor the actions of the outside lawyers and their fees.”

On Wednesday, Boehner directed the House general counsel to defend DOMA in court after the five-member Bipartisan Legal Advisory Committee voted 3-2 on a party-line basis to argue on behalf of the law.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/03/12/pelosi-queries-boehner-on-doma-defense-cost/

[3waygeek]

1. What costs?

Boehner & company will take care of it -- just cut taxes on the wealthy, and the $$$ will roll in. Hey, it's worked so well the last 30 years.

[Historic NY]

2. Where's the money budgeted Boner & where are the damn jobs?...

That giant sucking sound you hear folks is the lawyers feeding at the trough....imagine the fee's.

[notadmblnd]

3. How can there be money for this? boner says we are broke.