Waxman Seeks GSA Chief's Testimony

In that e-mail, Fraser suggested the names of corporate executives that Doan should meet. She also offered Doan advice about the GSA's Web site and indicated that she was already in talks with GSA officials about the diversity report, even though the agreement for the work would not be signed until nearly two months later, on July 25.

After the no-bid arrangement was terminated, Fraser sent another e-mail to Doan:

"Lurita, I will do anything for you and will do for the rest of my life," Fraser wrote to Doan on Sept. 6. "Bottom line, want relationship with GSA and will keep delivering as you know. But I have spent so much time at GSA from the report planning to these sessions with ZERO $$ How do we solve . . ."

Through an attorney, Fraser said she did nothing wrong in her work with Doan. "She is outraged by the suggestion that she has done anything unlawful or unethical in dealing with the GSA or Lurita Doan," her attorney, Jonathan N. Rosen, said in a previous statement. "Any such suggestion is not supported by any facts and is contradicted by her lifetime of advocacy in the service of others."

Fraser has stepped down as chief executive of the firms, according to a statement issued on Monday by Working Mother Media Inc., their parent company.

Waxman said he also wants to question Doan about a Jan. 26 teleconference she had with her senior staff and 40 of the agency's political appointees stationed around the country. During the call, Doan allegedly asked "how the agency could help 'our candidates' in the next elections," Waxman's letter said, citing "multiple sources." Committee investigators said one regional GSA administrator described "an effort to exclude House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from an upcoming opening of an environmentally efficient 'green' courthouse in San Francisco."

Regarding a different courthouse opening in Florida, Doan "noted that former President Bill Clinton had expressed interest in attending," and "stated that an effort should be made to get Senator Mel Martinez, the General Chairman of the Republican National Committee, to attend," the letter said.

Under the federal Hatch Act, executive branch officials are prohibited from "engaging in partisan politics while on duty, in official government work space, or with government equipment," Waxman said in the letter.

"It would be an obvious abuse if you suggested to agency officials that the activities of the agency be manipulated to provide political advantages to Republican candidates," he wrote.