Oversight Panel Wants a Raise

• By Jackie Kucinich
• Roll Call Staff
• March 30, 2009, 7:34 p.m.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) is appealing for more money to run his committee over the next two years, after learning that the panel — charged with keeping the federal government honest — received one of the smallest funding increases in the 111th Congress.