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To: StockDung who wrote (131)	7/22/2016 8:38:39 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1464

"Here's a list of the 22 most damaging and/or interesting emails, in case you want to skip ahead to the ones of most interest to you: " The ones of most interest to me are between the Koch Bros, Exxon, and Congressman Smith. When might we expect them? CSPW – A Lesson in Constitutional Illiteracy: Lamar Smith and the Climate Science Witch Hunt Adam Arnold and Anne Polansky, July 22, 2016 Read the full story here. On September 17th of 2014, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology voted 4-3 to grant subpoena powers to the Committee Chair, useable without consultation of the Committee as a whole. This extraordinary power became available for the first time during the current Congress, with Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) serving as Committee Chair. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) expressed concerns about the potential abuse of this power in January of 2015. This summer, the concern has been justified. Congressional committees have inherent subpoena power as a part of their Constitutional power to investigate. Committees create their own rules for how subpoenas are issued; they are entitled to endow the Committee Chair with that power individually, if they so choose. The number of committee chairs with unilateral subpoena powers increased significantly in the past two Congresses, raising questions about fairness and transparency. As the current instance demonstrates, unilateral subpoena power can also lead to Constitutional questions of states’ rights and federal overreach. On July 13 of this year, House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) issued subpoenas to the Attorneys General (AGs) of New York and Massachusetts, and eight NGOs, including UCS, demanding documents and correspondence related to the investigation of the Exxon Mobil Corporation’s use or misuse of climate data. The subpoenas represent an unconstitutional intrusion by the federal government into the state law enforcement arena. whistleblower.org