Two items from Congressman Waxman's Committe on OVersight and Reform:

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
White House Orchestrated Taxpayer-Funded Trips to Help Republican Candidates
A draft Committee report circulated by Chairman Waxman finds that in the months before the 2006 elections, the White House Office of Political Affairs "enlisted agency heads across government in a coordinated effort to elect Republican candidates to Congress," directing them "to make hundreds of trips – most at taxpayer expense – for the purpose of increasing the electability of Republicans."

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Bipartisan Committee Report Criticizes President's Assertion of Executive Privilege
A bipartisan report circulated today by Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Ranking Member Tom Davis finds that President Bush made a "legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege" when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's interview of Vice President Cheney from the Committee. A separate report circulated by Chairman Waxman criticizes the President's assertion of executive privilege in the Committee's investigation into recent climate change and Clean Air Act decisions. Both reports will be considered by the full Committee next week.