Republicans have a game plan should they be fortunate enough to win back the House: investigate and subpoena.
Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
Everything from the microscopic – the New Black Panther party – to the massive –- think bailouts – is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
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And a handful of aggressive would-be committee chairmen – led by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif., right) and Lamar Smith (R-Tex., left) – are quietly gearing up for a possible season of subpoenas not seen since the Clinton wars of the late 1990s.
This is in keeping with Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s agenda: “All we should do is issue subpoenas.”
