Republicans have speculated that a  Democratic congressional majority will 
mean a flurry of subpoenas and  investigations into everything under the sun as 
retaliation against the GOP and  President Bush. 
Not so, Waxman said. 
“A lot of people have said to me,  ‘Are you going to now go out and issue a 
lot of subpoenas and go on a wild  payback time?’ Well, payback is unworthy,” 
he said. “Doing oversight doesn’t  mean issuing subpoenas. It means trying 
to get information.” 
Subpoenas would be used only as a  last result, Waxman said, taking a jab at 
a previous committee chairman, GOP  Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, who led the 
committee during part of the Clinton  administration. 
“He issued a subpoena like most  people write a letter,” Waxman said.