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“It’s truly a mystery to me. I looked at what I thought was the final version of the conference report and that provision was not in at that time.”

-- Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, on a law to abolish the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

The measure was inserted into a military appropriations bill and signed into law without the knowledge of most or all members of Congress. The Office's exposure of corruption has embarrassed the Bush Administration.