No Picnic in The Park or Congress
Kevin E. Dayhoff
If you are of the mind that our current session of Congress is mendacious, hapless and incompetent, you may take solace in the knowledge that an 1861 joint committee makes the recent ineffectual “Super Committee” – or other committees formed to conduct congressional investigations in recent memory – seem like Romper Room in comparison.
December 9th and 10th marked the 150th anniversary of one of the most powerful and controversial committees ever empanelled by Congress – The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
For those who are reading this from Central Maryland and Northern Virginia, much of the history of the origins of this committee began after the First Battle of Bull Run or First Manassas, on July 21, 1861, which took place in nearby Prince William County, VA." ... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4801
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