firemarypeters

Mary Peters got a good tongue-lashing this morning from our friend Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

Peters was testifying on next year’s transportation budget – another reason to fire her, but that’s a different issue.

Dorgan recalled he had supported Mary Peters’ nomination as Transportation Secretary. ”I was pleased to do so,” he said. “Now I’m regretting that I did.”

You can guess why: Dorgan was angry that Mary Peters ignored the law that shuts down the pilot program opening the border to trucks from Mexico.

“You insist it doesn’t matter what it (the law) says,” Dorgan said. “That’s a cute interpretation by your attorney.”  

“There is a prohibition on this pilot project going forward,” he said. “You are in violation of the law.”

All this was music to our ears, of course. So was this:

“Agencies that thumb their nose at Congress….will pay a price for it,” Dorgan said.

He hinted that he’ll ask for an investigation into the department’s unlawful spending of tax dollars.

Stay tuned.