There is one thing lately that is really getting on my nerves and the more I look back the more it seems like a gigantic waste of time and taxpayer money. The House Oversight Committee
This is directly from the House Oversight Committee: Our mission statement is” to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies. We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington – and a voice to the people it serves. Genuinely good government requires a commitment to expose waste, fraud, and abuse. We ultimately report to hard working taxpayers to ensure their investment in government is spent effectively, efficiently, and transparently. We identify problems, shine light on the situation, and propose reforms to prevent abuses from being repeated”.
So reading that mission statement, does it give you the warm fuzzies about the work this committee does? If you think about what we see on TV and social media does it look like the mission statement meets reality?
Here is my take. The House Oversight Committee is nothing more than political theater. It does not matter what party is in charge. They seem more interested in getting their names out in the public and getting one over on whomever is testifying under oath. If said person testifying is supporting your party you get softball questions, like are you doing your job. The opposite party will grill you to no end. Constant questions. As you start to answer, they will ask another question. If they don’t get the answer they are looking for they will forever reclaim their time so the person at the desk trying to answer the question never gets an opportunity to do so. I personally would get up and walk away, I don’t need this childish behavior.
Based on that mission statement, is this committee doing its job, HELL NO!!!! What have we been hearing about in the news for weeks now, fraud. Minnesota has a fraud problem to the tune of $19 billion or more. California listed to $ 70 billion but I would be more inclined to trillions in fraud. How is this committee doing its job if one year Minnesota gets $60 million in funds and the next the expenditure jumps to $380 million and no one blinks an eye. House members have a staff of 23, add in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and still no questions asked, what a joke. You have one dude, Nick Shirley, with a camera and some homework doing the job of this committee exposing fraud. The committee is not focused on doing the job for the American people. The House of Representatives is responsible for the budget of the United States which means the House has allowed the fraud to start and continue for decades. This makes each and every member of the House of Representatives complicit in fraud and should be in jail!!!