Democratic Sen. Schiff again asks White House officials to disclose financial transactions

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7. When Democrats participate in hearings and draft these requests

the info doesn't just go "poof" because the GOP is power. It IS stored for future use in future legislation for when we can control the Committee Chairs.

The info that was gathered under President Bill Clinton (with Hillary Clinton's efforts) for a health care law in the early '90s, eventually RESURFACED a decade later to be used as a "lessons learned" on how to handle the drafting of what became the ACA under Obama in the mid-2000s.

As a former fed, I guarantee you that during my 30+ years, when a member of Congress "sent a letter requesting info", the fire was lit, and upper management sent out "All Employees" memos (before computers, done by FAX, with the secretaries making photocopies to shove in everyone's mailbox), requesting us to RESPOND TO THE REQUESTS.

That meant, STOP THE FUCK WHAT YOU WERE DOING AND SEARCH THROUGH YOUR DOCUMENTS FOR ANYTHING THAT MIGHT APPLY AND WAS REPONSIVE. Then make copies and give to your supervisor so they can compile the docs, forward up the chain, and where eventually BOXES of printouts (and later floppy discs/DVDs with files burned on them), WERE SENT TO THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO REQUESTED IT.

Sorry to shout but we have a problem here where people here have complete lack of Civics 101 and how Congress works. This idiocy about "Congress sending letters" is exactly the type of ignorance that needs to be rectified.