who are Republicans. Bramnick and Angelini asked why the committee couldn’t wait until June, when the second phase of the report by Navigant Consulting is issued examining the Port Authority’s capital plan. Wisniewski said the assembly committee’s subpoena power only has a one‐year time span. Navigant was hired by the Port Authority, not an independent overseer, Wisniewski said. The Port Authority undertook the independent audit being conducted by Navigant as a condition of Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing off on the August toll and fare increases. “The question is, what’s not in the Navigant report?” Wisniewski said afterward, who questioned if a consultant hired by the authority could objectively examine the authority’s finances and operations. This isn’t the first time the assembly transportation committee has sought and received subpoena power, Wisniewski said. It used subpoena power in 1990 under a Democratic chairman and while Jim Florio was governor and also used the power when James E. McGreevey was governor, he said.
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