The federal agency often inspects railroads, but an audit is a more serious step that is not common.
"We felt this was ingenious and exactly the kind of serious step that needs to take place if we are not to put a dent in this problem but eliminate it," said Ernie Allen, the center's chief executive.
"Subpoenaing the White House is a serious step that, unfortunately, appears to be necessary in light of the Obama administration's stonewall on Solyndra," Mr. Upton and Mr. Stearns said in a joint statement.
"Subpoenaing the White House is a serious step that, unfortunately, appears necessary in light of the Obama administration's stonewall on Solyndra," they said in a statement on Friday.
Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, said a unilateral U.S. withdrawal from the pact "would be a very dangerous step" that would "provoke serious condemnation" from the international community. .
"There has been a draft law for domestic workers for a long time, but it has not been passed by parliament," said Abdul Alghanim, head of the migrant workers office at the Kuwait Trade Union Federation. "In my opinion the government and parliament are not interested in taking serious steps for that".
John Kerry's recent effort to forge a settlement with Israel and Palestine was heroic, if unsuccessful, but the Administration should have had a serious Plan B, laying out intermediate steps that would sustain negotiations; its failure to do so contributed to the disaster that followed.
They depict a world in which Saddam Hussein, though undeniably eager to make Iraq a threatening world power, was far from any serious steps to do that.
"I intend to take serious steps to show that I am sincere on this," Matthews said.
