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Faux pas

(14,681 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2018, 11:48 AM Sep 2018

Need a little help please

trying to find out how many of the same misogynists that ran the thomas hearings are running kavanaugh's?

Thanks!

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Need a little help please (Original Post) Faux pas Sep 2018 OP

Watch or listen to Rachel Maddow yesterday. mahina Sep 2018 #1

Hatch of Utah is still there as well as Grassley of Iowa, and now Grassley is Chairman nt steve2470 Sep 2018 #2

You know that Democrats controlled the Senate then and ran the hearing? PoliticAverse Sep 2018 #3

As noted in another post rsdsharp Sep 2018 #4

no women. of course. demigoddess Sep 2018 #5

mahina

(17,669 posts)

1. Watch or listen to Rachel Maddow yesterday.

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:02 PM

Sep 2018

She goes through that. A DUer puts the link here somewhere every day or look at MSNBC.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)

2. Hatch of Utah is still there as well as Grassley of Iowa, and now Grassley is Chairman nt

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:03 PM

Sep 2018

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

3. You know that Democrats controlled the Senate then and ran the hearing?

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:06 PM

Sep 2018

Biden was chairman of Judiciary.

Members of the committee for the Thomas confirmation:

Democrats:
Chairman Joe Biden (Delaware)
Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts)
Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio)
Dennis DeConcini (Arizona)
Patrick Leahy (Vermont)
Howell Heflin (Alabama)
Paul Simon (Illinois)
Herb Kohl (Wisconsin)

Republicans
Ranking Member Strom Thurmond (South Carolina)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Alan Simpson (Wyoming)
Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania)
Hank Brown (Colorado)

rsdsharp

(9,186 posts)

4. As noted in another post

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:07 PM

Sep 2018

Grassley and Hatch were on the committee in 1991. However, there was a Democratic majority, and Joe Biden was chair during the Clarence Thomas hearings.

demigoddess

(6,641 posts)

5. no women. of course.

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Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:19 PM

Sep 2018

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