The following press release hit my email box:
The U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) and the U.S. House Government Reform Committee Minority will conduct a joint hearing at 10:00 AM, Friday, July 22, in Room 138 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, to examine the national security implications of disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence officer. The hearing will be co-chaired by Senate DPC Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Committee.
This isn't an official congressional panel. Partisan Republicans in Congress couldn't give a rat's ass that national security was compromised, especially since the leaker is one of their own.
But two things stood out on these hearings -- 1) Democrats have no intention of dropping the ball on the Plame affair, and 2) the involvement of Byron Dorgan, a solidly conservative Democrat from North Dakota, means that Democrats are united on the issue from its left to its right.