This is going to be hard to believe for some in the IRONMOUTH community, but it looks like the House Leadership has torpedoed any House hearings on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in favor of partisan posturing and some vague House-Senate conference proposal that will probably never happen.  No real official explanation of why they once again have abdicated their government oversight responsibilities but unofficially some point to the fact that many committees with oversight functions are still recovering from overwork during the Clinton administration.  In fact, former Government Affairs Committee chairman Dan Burton, IN (R) is said to have run out of interesting prop ideas and novel ways of proving imaginary crimes a full six years ago.