When Democrats took control of Congress, they promised to be more open and accountable, saying they would disclose the purpose of each earmark, the name of the lawmaker requesting it and the name and address of the intended recipient.
As Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, runs for governor, his rivals have called him weak on Medicaid fraud, and Republican lawmakers requested the federal review.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Lawmakers requested information on Thursday from regulators about Johnson & Johnson's recall of Children's Tylenol and other over-the-counter pediatric medicines, saying the company's repeated recalls "point to a major problem" with production.
In their letter, the two Democratic lawmakers requested a formal determination regarding possible legal violations.
The Justice Department made the announcement Monday, several months after Virginia lawmakers requested a probe.
GOP lawmakers "requested and received racial data" on how different voting rules would help or hurt racial minorities.
Shoba Lemoine of Higher One said the company has been working with Congress for the past year and already has supplied much of the information the lawmakers requested.
Despite that consensus, the fix was not included in the spending bill passed last December because some lawmakers requested additional reforms related the Forest Service's long-term budget outlook, while others requested contentious changes to how the agency manages national forests and conducts environmental reviews.
In the September 25 letter to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), GOP lawmakers requested the "standards or criteria that are required to initiate an investigation" of Planned Parenthood, and it asked how a heavily edited video that falsely purported to show illegal dealings in fetal tissue donation would not be investigated.
It agreed to explore the matter sooner when Senator Jon S. Corzine added his name to the lawmakers requesting the study.
