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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWATCH: House IG Hearing Melts Down as Dem Rep Rails Against Child Separation, Protestors Interrupt
by Amy Russo | 2:19 pm, June 19th, 2018
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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) quickly lost control of a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday when Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) launched a bold protest of the separation of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
As Gowdy began the hearing, Nadler cut him off, for what he said was an issue more deserving of attention than the Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton email probe, which was the topic at hand.
We have all seen the pictures of immigrant children ripped apart from their parents at the border, Nadler said. These children are not animals. They are not bargaining chips. They are not leverage to help President Trump build his wall.
Repeated calls for order can be heard partway through Nadlers statement, yet he continued on, cutting through the noise.
They are children who have been forcibly removed from their parents in our name, he said. Every day that they are separated from their parents is a day we do irreparable harm to their health and well being. The United States should be better than this. We should not put children in cages.
Nadler was then interrupted by Gowdy who said hed had enough.
The gentleman from New York has been given more time than would have been afforded the other side had we pulled something like that, Gowdy said.
Protesters can then be heard chanting in the background, at which point Gowdy called a recess, asking that Capitol police get the hearing under control.
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WATCH: House IG Hearing Melts Down as Dem Rep Rails Against Child Separation, Protestors Interrupt (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2018
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C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)1. We will not give them order
until these children are freed.
Zero tolerence.
Chickensoup
(650 posts)2. Thank you congressman Nadler
This is the real resistance we need.
The madness has to stop now.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)3. HOORAY and thank heaven
This is exactly what needs to be done: MAKE A NOISE, dammit.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)4. This should be done at every hearing, meeting, lunch, press conference, SHS lie-fest the GOP
and Whiney Donnie hold until those children are reunited with their parents.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)5. TIME TO PROTEST. Any way we can.