"Ross Perot, when he ran for president in 1992, talked about the giant sucking sound," Bainbridge Township GOP Rep. Steve LaTourette said today in an impassioned speech on the House of Representatives floor that attacked the use of taxpayer funds for bonuses paid to AIG executives.
"Well, today there's another sucking sound going on in Washington, D.C. And that's the tightening of sphincters on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as people are having to explain who put into the stimulus bill this provision of law."Wednesday, LaTourette and House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan held a news conference to discuss a "resolution of inquiry" to order an investigation into the Obama administration's communications with AIG on its use of federal money.
Video of that press conference is here: