The House will vote this week to give its main investigative arm one of the smallest funding increases of any committee — a sign that oversight of a Democratic administration isn’t a leading priority for the Democratic Congress. The Oversight Committee, where Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) has pledged to bird-dog the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, is getting a 3 percent increase, the second-smallest boost of any committee. Overall this year, committees got a 9 percent increase, with the Small Business Committee getting the largest percentage increase, 21 percent. Oversight remains the second-highest-funded...