Congressional Oversight Committees

There is a reason I find it hard to get through a day without listening to the news on NPR or visiting Betsy's Page. In this post Betsy discusses the fact that Congress has 88 oversight committees to which the Homeland Security Department must report:

In a totally predictable fashion, Congress has demonstrated that they're willing to reform everyone but themselves. They have made little progress in decreasing the number of oversight committees that the Homeland Security Department must report to. Remember the sacred 9/11 Commission and how everyone who resisted their recommendations was basically guaranteeing another devastating attack on the United States? Well, one of their key recommendations was to reduce the 88 oversight committees to one in each House. But the congressmen are so jealous of their oversight preening privileges that they refuse to give up jurisdiction. And even those who are willing to give up jurisdiction can't get the motion through their houses. It really is a scandal.