Congress will get to the bottom of this!

Our legislators and their priorities. Always a study in contrast.

Some things are worthy of full scale investigation.

Meanwhile, Representative Joe Barton, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, repeatedly warned during a hearing Thursday that his panel would also issue subpoenas if necessary to Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, and Paul Tagliabue, the commissioner of the National Football League, for a probable future hearing on their steroids policies.

Selig and Tagliabue declined invitations to appear at the hearing.

"Take that word back to them," Barton told two sports executives who appeared in place of the commissioners. "We'll do it the easy way or the hard way."

And some things -- like the politicization of intelligence leading up to a war -- just aren't.

Today, Pat Roberts, the Senate intelligence committee chairman, told everyone not to bother. "It's basically on the back burner," Roberts said after a speech on intelligence reform at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "The bottom line is that [the administration] believed the intelligence, and the intelligence was wrong." Some might dispute that characterization, as former CIA Director George Tenet did last year when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee--on which Roberts also serves--that "when I believed that somebody was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it."