- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Most
private contractors keeping tabs on billions of dollars in governmental
spending for the U.S. House Appropriations Committee have been let go.
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- With about 60 investigators gone, the shakeup leaves
only 16 full-time employees in the unit, USA Today reported.
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- Committee spokesman John Scofield said that the quality
of the unit's work had been questioned by leaders of the Republican-controlled
committee.
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- Scofield said the ongoing investigations include the
$62 billion federal relief package for Hurricane Katrina.
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- The cutback came about a year after Appropriations Chairman
Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., opened the Katrina review promising "a wide-ranging
assessment and analysis of disaster spending."
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