Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Al Franken sharply criticized Sen. Norm Coleman today for failing to hold any hearings on contractor fraud in Iraq during his time as chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “Our troops and our taxpayers needed a watchdog in that seat,” Franken said at a press conference this morning on the steps of the Capitol. “Instead they got a lapdog for George W. Bush and his cronies at Halliburton. Norm Coleman’s dereliction of duty stands as an indelible stain on his record. He let our country down. We paid a steep price. Now it falls to the people of Minnesota to hold him accountable.”