Congressional oversight

"Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas card list to identify potential Democratic donors.

In the past two years, a House committee has managed to take only 12 hours of sworn testimony about the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison".

Susan Milligan, Boston Globe

Republicans are great at getting elected. They are miserable failures at governing. And as you can see, ridiculously partisan and criminally negligent in their role of oversight.