"I was shocked. But I was also just furious about it too," says Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop.

It was less than 24 hours after Richard Short had received a $9.1 million tax credit from the state that the MEDC learned Short was in fact a convicted felon.

"It can't happen. Something like this is something you never expect to hear," Bishop says.

And the senate majority leader from Rochester says he never wants to hear it again. So Bishop is asking committees to go back and dig into the issue to find out what went wrong.

"We're going to do a thorough investigation and look into the possibility of oversight function in the legislature," he says. "We want to review what happened, to see if there's anything we can do to close the gaps and ensure this never happens again."

Hearings going on next week, he says, should shed light on the MEDC vetting process of tax-credit candidates. Bishop also wants his members to look at all previous winners.

"There can be no assumptions anymore. We've got to identify where the problems are," he says.

Bishop says he's even looking into legislation to make sure this never happens again.

House GOP members are also holding hearings on the tax-break fiasco; whatever they can do to make sure we never fund felons ever again.

"There's no question taxpayers are the victims," Bishop says.