This dispatch comes from our Washington reporter Eun Kim ...Government watchdogs would be imposed to seven-year term limits and be better protected from political interference under a bill that won overwhelming approval Wednesday from the House.
The legislation, approved 404-11, is intended to improve the work and independence of inspectors general. It includes two provisions, added as amendments, that resulted from an ongoing investigation into NASA's internal watchdog, Robert "Moose" Cobb.
One amendment expands the reasons for removing an inspector general to include an abuse of authority and gross mismanagement. The other establishes a panel to screen watchdog nominees and provide a review of their qualifications to the Senate.
"If this second provision had been in law seven years ago, Mr. Cobb never would have become NASA's IG since he had no meaningful management, accounting or investigative experience -- core requirements for any IG under the law," said Rep. Brad Miller, the North Carolina Democrat who sponsored the amendments. Miller chairs the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.
President Bush has threatened to veto the bill, saying he objects to language in the measure that would curb his authority to fire inspectors general.
The Senate has yet to take up the bill.
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IF THERE WERE BASIC REQUIREMENTS
TO RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE MOST OF CONGRESS WOULD NOT BE EMPLOYED.
Is this bill being pushed b/c of Mike Mccaully and mod squad making parts with government material and the IG turning the other cheeck?????
12:36...and who came out of that mess smelling like a rose?
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