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BritVic

(262 posts) Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:23 PM Feb 2019

May I ask a question about the hearing?

Why, after the last break, were there a string of questions from Democratic representatives, not alternating like before, and why did the Reps just offer up newspaper articles as a response?

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May I ask a question about the hearing? (Original Post) BritVic Feb 2019 OP

They weren't able to be there earlier. displacedtexan Feb 2019 #1

There were dems who hadn't had their 5 minutes. onecaliberal Feb 2019 #2

There are more Democrats on the Committee than Republicans BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #3

Thanks BritVic Feb 2019 #4

There are more Democratic members on the committee than Republican members. W_HAMILTON Feb 2019 #5

Democrats have the majority...simply put, there are more Dems than thugs spanone Feb 2019 #6

It called being in the Majority! GulfCoast66 Feb 2019 #7

It was a pleasure to hear a string of sensible questions after all that shouting earlier ! BritVic Feb 2019 #8

There are more Dems than Repubs. Also a lot of the Repubs asked brief questions and then yielded to dameatball Feb 2019 #9

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)

1. They weren't able to be there earlier.

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Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:24 PM

Feb 2019

onecaliberal

(32,894 posts)

2. There were dems who hadn't had their 5 minutes.

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Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:25 PM

Feb 2019

BumRushDaShow

(129,442 posts)

3. There are more Democrats on the Committee than Republicans

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Wed Feb 27, 2019, 06:26 PM

Feb 2019

thanks to the election, so they ran out of Republicans!

Edit to add the list -

Majority

Elijah Cummings, Maryland, Chairman
Carolyn Maloney, New York
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
Lacy Clay, Missouri
Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
Jim Cooper, Tennessee
Gerry Connolly, Virginia
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois
Jamie Raskin, Maryland
Harley Rouda, California
Katie Hill, California, Vice Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
John Sarbanes, Maryland
Peter Welch, Vermont
Jackie Speier, California
Robin Kelly, Illinois
Mark DeSaulnier, California
Brenda Lawrence, Michigan
Stacey Plaskett, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ro Khanna, California
Jimmy Gomez, California
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts
Rashida Tlaib, Michigan

Minority

Jim Jordan, Ohio, Ranking Member
Justin Amash, Michigan
Paul Gosar, Arizona
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Jody Hice, Georgia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
James Comer, Kentucky
Michael Cloud, Texas
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Clay Higgins, Louisiana
Ralph Norman, South Carolina
Chip Roy, Texas
Carol Miller, West Virginia
Mark E. Green, Tennessee
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
Greg Steube, Florida