Lawmakers to agencies: Stop dragging your feet on doc requests

Fedscoop: Federal agencies are falling woefully short on delivering documents requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and members took umbrage during a Thursday hearing, accusing agency officials of trying to hide the truth from Congress.

It was an adversarial and at times acrimonious face-off between lawmakers of both parties and officials they slammed for dragging their feet in aiding the committee's oversight. Some Democratic congressmen counter-charged that the GOP leaders of the panel were singling out politically advantageous fights to pick with the administration — although no officials echoed that.

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