Since assuming chairmanship of the committee, Representative Issa has led hearings into Tarp, the financial crisis and FDA, but to little avail.
To me, the hearings do not represent a witchhunt and Congressman King is no Joe McCarthy (the US senator who led hearings on communist infiltration of government and the army).
As the Senate's fiercest Democratic critic of Hollywood and what he views as society's moral decay, Mr. Lieberman has led hearings on violence in video games and deplored sex and violence in films and television.
As a senator, he led hearings that forced the Pentagon to acknowledge a gulf war-era friendly fire cover-up and wrote a two-volume report on government waste and abuse.
Senator John McCain of Arizona, who led hearings into steroid use in 2004, repeated his calls for the players union to agree to effective drug testing during a campaign stop yesterday in Tempe, Ariz.
Senator William L. Gormley, who led hearings into racial profiling last year, said he had already been asked to open a new inquiry to determine whether there had been a widespread effort by troopers to hinder the investigation into the shooting.
Representative John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat whose district includes a large Muslim population, began his testimony by telling colleagues that when he led hearings, he kept a picture of Senator Joe McCarthy on the wall, "so that I would know what it is I did not want to look like".
In the United States Senate, Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin led hearings on video game violence and the corruption of society which began in 1992.
As Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Senator Collins has led hearings on pandemic flu preparedness, worked on "bioshield" legislation and funding, and helped strengthen our nation's preparedness for a pandemic flu.
The chairman of the committee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, is a potential nominee himself for secretary of state, but would otherwise lead the hearings.
