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New House Judiciary Chairman (Lamar Smith-TX) to Obama: Prepare for Investigations
WOAI ^ | 11/04/10 | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 11/04/2010 10:20:18 AM PDT by Libloather

New House Judiciary Chairman to Obama: Prepare for Investigations
Veteran Congressman will head influential House Judiciary Committee
By Jim Forsyth
Thursday, November 4, 2010

The San Antonio Congressman who is in line to become chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is promising 'a number of investigations and oversight committee actions' which he vows will 'hold the administration accountable,’ 1200 WOAI news reports.

Veteran Republican Lamar Smith, a Yale graduate and social conservative who grew up in the brush country of south Texas which is now transit point for illegal immigrants and drugs, said in a news conference that a number of issues will come into the sights of his committee when he takes the chairmanship in January, from cracking down on child pornography to taking the Obama Administration to task for failing to do enough to protect the southern border.

Smith says it is his Constitutional duty.

"Part of that checks and balances is in fact holding the administration accountable, is in fact insisting on more transparency, is insisting on more honesty, and getting the facts," Smith said. "Right now, because of the one party monopoly, the Administration has been able to dodge any kind of supervision, any kind of oversight committee action, and they refuse to testify, and that is no longer acceptable."

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.woai.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 112th; blackpanthers; gopagenda; holder; investigation; johnconyers; lamarsmith; obama; shorebankgate; smith; texas
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To: AU72

I want them all exposed. This will be an entertaining year! My greatest fear is congress will go wobbly, then, we’ll just have to boot them out as well. Finally after years, decades really, of trying to restore conservatism, our day has come. This fight is just beginning, and we will not lose, no matter how long it takes.

I want rangle, frank et all summoned. All of them. It might take years, but we MUST keep this momentum going.


61 posted on 11/04/2010 8:52:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: BradtotheBone

And where the heck has the money gone?


62 posted on 11/04/2010 8:59:00 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Libloather

Orange jumpsuit makers should expect a good 2 years.


63 posted on 11/04/2010 9:07:53 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: hoosiermama; STARWISE; maggief; penelopesire; SE Mom
This mind games themselves should keep certain people up at night....

Or out of the country.....India anyone?

:)

64 posted on 11/04/2010 9:09:23 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Libloather

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes ........whoopie !

Shed light on these cockroaches.


65 posted on 11/04/2010 9:09:42 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Libloather

Perp walks!

I want to see Perp Walks!


66 posted on 11/04/2010 9:18:48 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33; Jim Robinson

67 posted on 11/04/2010 9:23:28 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: italianquaker

Right. Oversight hearings, conducted properly, can win public support and weaken the administration. With zero weakened and the public on our side, legislative initiates will have a greater chance of success.
For example, health care hearings will give the public a window into rationing and privacy intrusions. Just get Berwick and Sebelius on the hot seat and the videos will go viral. Oversight hearings on fraudulent climate change research could mobilize public opinion against executive orders that seek to impose energy taxes.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time.


68 posted on 11/04/2010 9:31:51 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Does anyone know if Smith has the cojones to go straight for the jugular?


69 posted on 11/04/2010 9:40:27 PM PDT by chilltherats (He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits against their betters)
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To: AU72

I’d rather tie them to the back bumper of a pick up and drag them up there.


70 posted on 11/04/2010 9:41:25 PM PDT by chilltherats (He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits against their betters)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Czars!!! Czars, and more Czars.

Dig their dirt.


71 posted on 11/04/2010 10:30:12 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: onyx; maggief; hoosiermama; penelopesire; Liz; SE Mom

Why .. why ... why .. do they have to telegraph
everything ???!!! So stupid. Jeeeeze.


72 posted on 11/04/2010 10:38:18 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

I concur.


73 posted on 11/04/2010 10:46:01 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution is an excellent starting point.

The local and State govts can care for many items, but invasion by illegals is the FEDS responsibility with the Executive holding the last buck.


74 posted on 11/04/2010 11:49:08 PM PDT by Loud Mime ("A question? What is it?" an interrogative statement used to gather knowledge.. Airplane!)
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To: Major Matt Mason
If Holder leaves there won't be any Obama loyalists that will want the job with a GOP Congress looking over their shoulder.
75 posted on 11/04/2010 11:55:47 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: chilltherats

Lamar Smith (my congressman for many years...no longer) will do whatever should/must be done.


76 posted on 11/05/2010 12:52:47 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck -)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Holder can arrest people for being white in Omerica.


77 posted on 11/05/2010 2:14:26 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: onyx; STARWISE
Mind games to create:

Anxiety, to keep them up at night. To start e-mails, phone calls flowing trying to cover their tracks. (Hope they already have a couple of wire taps...if from Chicago they probably do).

Paranoia, (Just like Beck stating he's got someone on the inside) Don't trust each other/ creates chaos in communication.

Someone with mental problems can be pushed over the edge if done “correctly”. Their actions become more evident and bazaar.

78 posted on 11/05/2010 2:46:10 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: potlatch

79 posted on 11/05/2010 3:25:43 AM PDT by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . To Nancy Pelosi - . . WITCHING DOES NOT MAKE IT . . SOW . . . . . . . .)
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To: VRWCmember

I agree that there are more important issues, but there is one thing that needs to be investigated right away: the New Black Panther issue. Otherwise, none of the ‘rational’ career lawyers in DoJ would say anything when they see law is being broken. Other issues can wait for a while.


80 posted on 11/05/2010 3:27:21 AM PDT by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen former Democratic Congressmen.)
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