Eye on Recess Appointees

Attention Julie Myers and Tracy Henke: President Bush may have circumvented the Senate by giving you your jobs at Homeland Security through recess appointments, but senators still have their eyes on you. Here's Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, on the appointments: "I hope that the Homeland Security Committee engages in particularly searching oversight over these officials’ actions while they are in office to ensure that they appropriately discharge their duties."