{"id":2867,"date":"2009-10-21T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2009-10-21T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T19:34:16","slug":"democrats-lock-republicans-out-of-committee-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/democrats-lock-republicans-out-of-committee-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Lock Republicans Out of Committee Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most ethical Congress in history? Heh…<\/p>\n

From The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren\u2019t present.<\/p>\n

Towns\u2019 action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns\u2019s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage\u2019s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.<\/p>\n

For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.<\/p>\n

Republicans charged that Towns canceled 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\u2019s political contributions to Republicans.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of \u201cHit the Road, Jack\u201d and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee\u2019s minority webpage<\/a>, where it remained as of press time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is the Democrats idea of transparency and accountability I’d hate to see their idea secrecy… So just what are they trying to cover up?<\/p>\n

Here’s the video:
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Ouch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most ethical Congress in history? Heh… From The Hill: Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren\u2019t present. Towns\u2019 action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns\u2019s failure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[616,7],"tags":[890,891,720,889],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-culture-of-corruption","category-politics","tag-darrell-issa","tag-edolphus-towns","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-house-oversight-and-government-reform-committee","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-Kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4078,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/acting-atf-director-likely-to-be-ousted-over-gunwalker-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":2867,"position":0},"title":"Acting ATF Director Likely To Be Ousted Over Gunwalker Scandal","author":"Jeff","date":"June 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"From CNN: Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the ongoing controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday. 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