That card-carrying socialist Carol Browner is called a “czar”? Anyway . . .

Three top Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are calling on the Obama administration to release detailed records about how White House energy and climate adviser Carol Browner is influencing policies at U.S. EPA.
“We are concerned about the role of Presidential ‘czars’ and their influence over regulatory policy-making at federal agencies,” Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), David Vitter (R-La.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) wrote in a letter yesterday to top administration officials.
Obama’s policy czars “appear to have decision-making authority commensurate with Senate-confirmed, Cabinet level officials,” the senators wrote. “For this reason, we are requesting specific information about White House Coordinator of Energy and Climate Policy Carol Browner, and how her office has exercised authority over the Environmental Protection Agency.”
The senators sent their request to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, head of the White House regulatory review office Cass Sunstein, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
In order to provide a clearer picture of Browner’s role, the senators asked for all correspondence and records relating to Browner’s influence over EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas emission standards for automobiles and its proposed finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. The lawmakers also requested all correspondence and records from briefings that EPA participated in or conducted in which Browner or her staff were present.
The request is the latest in a series of attacks surrounding czars from conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers. The White House and many of its supporters say that the presidential advisers play important roles in coordinating policy on various issues.
Jackson defended the role that Browner — former EPA administrator during the Clinton administration — played in the development of the greenhouse gas standards for automobiles when she was grilled by GOP senators earlier this year.
At a June hearing, Barrasso questioned whether Jackson had been overshadowed by Browner in the negotiations leading up to the proposal. “It seems that Ms. Browner’s the one in charge,” he said, “and she has not been approved by the Senate.”
Jackson replied, “This issue is one that demanded . . . coordination at the White House level, because it required two agencies of the federal government, [the Transportation Department] and EPA”