Also, she couldn’t let a $50MM effort by her staff go for naught... After all, she’s in the Majority now and will be in the Minority in a week or so.
How could the staff of that committee rack up $50MM in expense for writing this report?
A lot of that “Staff” are people under contact (Like Gruber)and most of them are Lawyers who charge for the hours they put in. Like most Lawyers, they have an incentive ($$) for putting as many hours in as they can get away with.