Just how committed is Darrell Issa's (R-CA) Oversight and Government Reform Committee on doing anything possible to protect business interests over people? A rather prominent clue can be found in an Associated Press article (via Nexis) about the hearing held on Thursday "designed to give a voice to business complaints about government regulations."

Recent additions to the business hit list include ... a Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to require businesses to identify their "conflict minerals" those mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights abuses. A report by Issa's staff acknowledged that rules such as the conflict minerals proposal have a good purpose in this case, preventing atrocities, but also cost businesses time and money.

Decisions, decisions. Preventing atrocities or helping businesses to cut costs?

Care to guess which way the GOP will go on this?