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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Actual headline WaPo) GOP senators admonish Dem for persistent questioning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/gop-senator-admonishes-democrat-for-persistent-questioning/2017/06/07/85ff2b52-4bcd-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.b849a6465ec7WASHINGTON The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee admonished California Sen. Kamala Harris, along with other Democrats, and asked her to be more respectful Wednesday as she pressed top intelligence chiefs testifying before the panel.
Harris was questioning Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, asking him if he would send a letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller giving him unlimited authority in his probe into possible ties between President Donald Trumps campaign and Russia.
The exchange was tense, with Harris interrupting Rosenstein as he started to say there wasnt enough time to explain the answer. When she asked for a yes or no answer, he demurred, and she said, either you are willing to do that or not.
Warren also tweeted: Silencing @SenKamalaHarris for not being courteous enough is just unbelievable. Keep fighting, Kamala! #NeverthelessShePersisted
bresue
(1,007 posts)Take for example Dump's speeches or twitters...they have not been 'courteous' in anyway....but oh, I forgot, he is a man and women are supposed to be present but not heard....
nycbos
(6,034 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)'I don't feel like answering' is unacceptable!
You took an Oath!
Initech
(100,081 posts)Do you want an uprising, GOP? Because that's how you get an uprising.
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)woman, minority, liberal, that's 3 strikes.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)whitesplained and mansplained. Boy, I am one old white male who's tired of republican cretins
BumRushDaShow
(129,123 posts)and was not interrupted once. Not even for time constraints.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)isn't it? Elizabeth Warren can't read the words of Coretta Scott King, but it was okay for Corey Booker to do it. Kamala Harris can't question Rosenstein, but King is all over them.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,504 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)A couple years ago there was a Senate hearing where a GOP Senator kept throwing question after question at a female witness,
and she kept attempting to answer but he kept cutting her off.
Finally he said
I'm not giving up my time for you to respond !
I wondered if he treated his wife the same way.
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)And in San Francisco was a practicing attorney and district attorney. It's in her blood to question you frickin idiot Burr!