Bailout Overseer: We’re Still Trying To Get Office Space


The people who created this committee clearly had no idea how to feign concern to appease the masses.

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel, which is monitoring the Treasury’s spending of the bailout money, appeared this afternoon before a House commmitee to testify about the reportbetter characterized as a set of questions — the panel released this morning.

And from what Warren said, it doesn’t appear that oversight of the billions of dollars at stake is being treated by either Treasury or Congress as a top priority.

Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/bailout_overseer_were_still_trying_to_get_office_space.php

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