First Hearing Done, Three To Go

So the Congress in its infinite wisdom of investigating the GSA wasting hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars is holding four congressional hearings on the subject. That in itself is a waste of money.

Monday’s hearing is just the start of Congress’s probe into dubious GSA spending. On Tuesday, the Transportation Committee’s subpanel on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management – headed by Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) – will take another shot at the embattled agency. And Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services Subpanel, have both scheduled hearings on the topic Wednesday.

Unsurprisingly, the man responsible for the Las Vegas boondoggle said the following:

Mr, Chairman, on the advice of my counsel I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutionally privilege