Tag: committee room

I’ve been saying it all along and now Mitch McConnell is validating it: Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure to slow things down, take advantage […]

This is absolutely absurd. The Republicans are now threatening the Democrats for holding hearings on Iraq yesterday: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is threatening to punish Democrats for using an Appropriations Committee room for an unofficial hearing on Iraq oversight if it happens again. “They better stop this,” the Mississippi Republican said. “This will be the […]