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Inslee calls for investigation of political appointees at Interior

30 October 2006

U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee wants to know if politics have trumped science in the Bush Administration. He's asked the inspector general at the Interior Department to find out if political appointees have changed recommendations on threatened species written by biologists at the federal agency. In February, Inslee was instrumental in restoring federal funding to an Oregon State University graduate student whose findings contradicted administration policy on salvage logging.

Click here to read Inslee's letter to the inspector general.