Lame duck Congress restores some sanity and accountability. From AP:
The Senate approved an amendment Tuesday to extend an investigative office that unearthed millions of dollars in waste and fraud associated with the rebuilding of Iraq.
The amendment, passed by voice vote as part of the military construction and veterans' spending bill, would keep the inspector general's office running through October 2008. Under current law, it will expire in October 2007.
The amendment was offered by Republican Susan Collins, the chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold.
Remember that Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee slipped a midnight rider into the spending bill to shut down the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
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