My Way News: House Panel Seeks to Keep Schiavo Alive

Unfortunately, the full Senates of the US and Florida have failed to act. Therefore, the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight has apparently laid aside its baseball 'roids investigation (perhaps temporarily) and opened an investigation that really matters. They are now investigating the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo and have issued "subpoenas ordering doctors and hospice administrators not to remove her feeding tubes and to keep her alive until that investigation was complete."

And as if that weren't enough, Drudge informs us that Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Health Committee, has now stated that he wants Terri Schindler-Schiavo to testify before his committee! Just by declaring that officially, he has placed her under the legal protection of the Senate. Because Drudge put this text on his front page, and that front page is subject to change, I have taken the liberty of reproducing it in its entirety:

**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.

Members of Congress went to the U.S. Attorney in DC to ask for a temporary restraining order to be issued by a judge, which protects Terri Schiavo from having her life support, including her feeding and hydration tubes, removed... Developing...

"Developing" just about says it. We will know within four and a half hours what result all of this will have.

UPDATE 12:20 p.m. ET: Rush Limbaugh also echoed, or confirmed, Drudge's account of what Senator Enzi did. "Talk about a nuclear option!" he cried, obviously excited and pleased. (I would have said, "Talk about the marines landing.") We also hear that yet another Florida hearing will convene shortly.