One member of Congress was here to hear their complaints: Representative Mike Honda, a Democrat from nearby San Jose.
"It is stunning that the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have received $150 billion in a taxpayer-funded bailout, had just two people receiving and processing customer complaints," Representative Spencer Bachus, the Alabama Republican who is chairman of the House's financial services committee, said in a statement.
The lawmaker who raised the complaint, Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr., a Virginia Republican who is the chairman of the Commerce Committee, acted after receiving a scathing report on the agency's computer security from the General Accounting Office.
"There is a set of recurring patterns on the Republican side trying to grind him into the dust, so we're a bit dubious of their complaints," said Representative Peter Welch of Vermont.
The change was made after persistent complaints by Representative Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the House Aviation Subcommittee, who had described the failure to screen the workers as a "gaping loophole".
WASHINGTON Nevadada Republicans have filed an ethics complaint against Representative Shelley Berkley, Democrat of Nevada, accusing her of using her office to enrich herself by promoting legislation and intervening with federal regulators to help out her husband's medical practice.
A grand jury has rejected a flight attendant's request that it investigate her complaint that Representative Gary A. Condit obstructed justice by asking her to sign an affidavit falsely stating that they did not have an affair.
The House ethics committee dismissed a complaint against Representative Steve Buyer, Republican of Indiana, saying it had found no evidence that he used his position on an Armed Forces subcommittee to help his party in the presidential election recount in Florida.
Correction: August 4 , 2001 Saturday A report by The Associated Press in the National Briefing column yesterday about the House ethics committee's dismissal of a complaint against Representative Steve Buyer, Republican of Indiana, referred incorrectly to the object of a committee accusation.
Canon Der said conditions began to improve after the councilwoman convened a meeting on Feb. 24, at which church members aired their complaints to representatives of New York City Transit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Queens Surface Corporation, a private bus line.
A complaint from Representative Frank R. Wolf, a Virginia Republican who opposes making China's trade status permanent, prompted the General Accounting Office to open an investigation this month into whether the administration violated legal restrictions on lobbying Congress when it set up a White House "war room" to coordinate the campaign.
