The financial services panel has jurisdiction over legislation affecting banks.
Representative Solomon Ortiz, Democrat of Corpus Christi, led a subcommittee on the armed services panel.
Senators on the armed services panel were outraged at the report's shoddiness and timing, but should not have been surprised.
The cochairmen of the social services panel are Willy B. Edlow Jr., president of the United Way of Long Island, and Brooke Spiro, dean of social work at Adelphi University.
"There's a tremendous reserve of hope that we can begin to solve these problems we have," said Willie B. Edlow, president of United Way of Long Island and co-chairman of Mr. Suozzi's social services panel.
On May 7, the Senate armed services panel asked Mr. Rumsfeld for these reports on widespread abuse in the military prisons in Iraq; one of the reports had already appeared on the Internet.
While he was chairman of the financial services panel, Mr. Bachus faced an ethics investigation after a "60 Minutes" report alleged that he used insider information to make stock trades.
Others include Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat with a senior role on the House financial services panel, and Representative Collin C. Peterson, Democrat of Minnesota, who leads the House Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction over futures contracts and derivatives.
In response to criticism from officials in the armed services, panel members pointed out that the joint force commander in the war zone would have the authority to return legal oversight of the investigation and trial to the armed service, but that would not be the automatic legal default.
Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House financial services panel, said that if the auto bail-out had been quickly approved, "I could write the [news] stories for tomorrow: in a rushed, barely examined commitment of many, many more taxpayer dollars, Congress today leapt into an abyss".
