In short, he was asking F.D.R. to put his stamp on a commission that would then be under Hoover's direction, free to enact his agenda — that is, his New Deal-sabotage project.
The commission that wrote it is under a committee that does everything but protect human rights".
A separate commission that was also formed under the new Constitution to monitor electoral fraud has disqualified 78 of the 200 winners from an election last month to the newly formed Senate.
A longtime director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Col. Thomas A. Davis Jr., resigned a week after the fire under heavy criticism from a citizen's commission that oversees his department.
Furness assured the commission that under questioning by Whitlam, "he said he stood by the letter as being accurate".
Describing the nation's counterterrorism budget as "pork barrel politics at its worst," Mr. Bloomberg told the commission that under current spending formulas, states and cities with little threat of being attacked are getting far more in federal subsidies per capita than New York.
They are also behind charges now under investigation by a Parliamentary standards commission that Mr. Duncan Smith's wife, Betsy, held a paid no-show job in his parliamentary office.
Sorry to commission that.
Under the agreement that created the commission, that appointment can be vetoed by Senators John McCain and Richard C. Shelby, two Republicans who have favored an aggressive investigation.
The aide, David W. Johnson, was ordered to testify before the Commission on Public Integrity in a subpoena given to a Paterson administration lawyer on Feb. 24, one week before the commission issued a report finding that Mr. Paterson had violated state ethics laws by accepting the tickets and had lied under oath when he told the commission that he had intended to pay for them.
