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Wednesday | February 19, 2003

GOP forced GAO to drop Cheney suit

This should come as no shock to anyone.

Threats by Republicans to cut the General Accounting Office (GAO) budget influenced its decision to abandon a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, The Hill has learned.

Sources familiar with high-level discussions at the GAO said Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, met with GAO Comptroller General David Walker earlier this year and “unambiguously” pressured him to drop the suit or face cuts in his $440 million budget.

(Via Atrios.)

Posted February 19, 2003 08:38 AM | Comments (26)





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