In a display of power rarely showed by a Speaker of the Chamber, Conservative Foley Sakzi today backed the Liberal and Progressive Parties in their protest against President Bishop's proposed spending plan which they argue would cut some funds for education and transport in favor of military and fossil-fuel energy sectors. This comes after President Bishop was able to get a military spending bill approved by Congress, but only with two liberal party votes. Sakzi is once again showing that he is not worried to cross hands with the President and pull for favor on the other side of the aisle. This is not the first time this has occured; he joined liberal congressmen in early February to strike down the President's proposed tax cut which would have limited funding for special education programs, and the Speaker also butted heads with President Castovia in 2017 in regards to another military spending bill.
In the mean time, Congressmen on the liberal side of the aisle have approved a hearing to receive full reports from Special Prosecutor Cairo Gough, who is known for taking down key members of Congress and the Castovia Administration in January 2019. There were concerns that Presidential spending on motercades and personal lavishness exceeded what is allowed by current billing, including a trip abroad that was not announced on the President's public schedule that was neither military related or had anything to do with national security, rather it was an apparent weekend vacation with President Bishop's boyfriend. This latest report is teeing up a showdown between congressional liberals and the Bishop administration over the nearly 400-page report.
Green Liberal Party Leader Ellis Jackson said Monday that he had scheduled a markup on Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for the Gough report, as well as the special counsel's underlying evidence. The markup would give Jackson the green light to subpoena the report, though Jackson has not said whether he would do so before the Attorney General releases a redacted version publicly, which he is expected to do later this month. The Congressional Judicial Committee will also vote to authorize subpoenas for five former Zian Presidential Mansion staffers — Rick Addaman, Steve Mawwes, Percy Attalion, Bryan Umbaras and Ann Crhistonson— whom Jackson says may have received documents from the Mansion relevant to the special counsel's probe and the committee's investigation that would waive executive privilege. The subpoena markup is scheduled one day after the April 3 deadline liberals set for the AG to provide the full report and its underlying evidence to Congress.
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