IPFS News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
• The HillRepublicans charged that Towns cancelled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.
A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained as of press time.
Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings
1 Comments in Response to Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
The GOP should never allowed this kind of crap, why didn't they kick the door down and let them know the difference between Oblique and Transparency. You can't see through a door unless it has a window. Patriotic Americans,, RISE UP and STOP THIS TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT. KICK GEORGE SOROS AND BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA OUT OF OUR WHITEHOUSE.