Between 2000 and 2006 , many major events and scandals in the Bush administration generated few or no subpoenas from the Republican-led committee . These events included the September 11 attacks ; the leaking of classified information identifying Central Intelligence Agency agent Valerie Plame ; CIA-backed abuses and war crimes at Abu Ghraib prison ; the emergence of evidence that the Bush administration had knowingly lied in claiming that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction ; illegal campaign contributions by lobbyists , including Jack Abramoff ; thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in preventable damage due to the Federal Emergency Management Agency 's weak response to Hurricane Katrina ; and Philip Cooney 's suppression of accepted scientific data demonstrating the existence of global warming . After the release of the Downing Street memo , which contained incriminating information on the buildup to the Iraq War , Democrats in the minority were refused a hearing chamber and were forced to meet in the basement of the United States Capitol
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform