Refer the oversight letters to Justice

I have a pen.

The pen is not the source of statutory authority.

A very GOOD pen. Everybody wants me to wait for hundreds of people to agree, they can't even agree what time to have lunch. I could sign the lunch order and get them all fed while they're still forming the lunch committee..... tremendous lost sandwich time.

Appropriations remain subject to legal restrictions.

I want the options that actually work.

Each proposal needs its own analysis.

Fine. Put the actual answer on page one, I don't want to reach page forty and discover the pen was the only approved part.

I can work with people. I have built entire buildings with people who wanted a different carpet, very difficult people, eventually they saw the carpet. Congress will have opinions also..... I assume many. Put the useful ones near the top.

The transition plan now covers both chambers. Committee leadership changes begin with the new Congress.

I want my VETO stamp checked.

The stamp does not answer a subpoena. Those requests have a separate workflow.

Separate workflow, same enormous amount of paper coming to ME. I thought they wanted to save trees.

Retention requirements continue through the transition.

I've kept the folder. Very thick folder now. They should see the thickness before they start asking for another one.

I never said they were a subsidiary. Subsidiaries send money UP.

The incoming majority has announced its priorities. Its committee powers take effect with the new Congress.

Now everybody wants an organizational chart, I have built organizations, very large ones, the chart usually ends with ME. This one has an entire building off to the side with its own stationery and very strong feelings about attachments..... complicated drawing.

Congressional authority does not depend on the presidential reporting chart.

I know where the building is.

The response plan retains the January transition date.

Then I want the files ready before January. Don't arrive with a beautiful empty binder and tell me we're prepared.

I get the letters. Everybody gets letters, suddenly their envelopes have Oversight on them and mine are supposed to have an apology. I have very good stationery myself, beautiful stationery, nobody ever gives my letterhead the same Respect..... look into that part also.

The letterhead is outside the requested legal review.

I noticed the attachments.

Retention continues while Counsel reviews the requests.

Then keep MY attachments too. I don't want a hearing with only their side of the stapler.

A complaint about oversight does not suspend the document workflow.

Fine, I want the whole file. Whole means the pages after the one everybody put on television.