GOP Leaders Refusing To Pay For Dana Rohrabacher's Travel Over Russia Fears
Source: The Daily Beast
The California congressman had to pay his own way to visit Julian Assange this past August.
NICO HINES
SAM STEIN
10.24.17 11:22 AM ET
House Republican leaders have taken the extraordinary step of curtailing Rep. Dana Rohrabachers (R-CA) ability to conduct official business out of fear that he is too compromised by his ties to Russia. Rohrabacher has drawn scrutiny for his longstanding links with Moscow, his closeness to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and his recent willingness to allow his subcommittee to be used for Kremlin propaganda purposes.
In response, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has placed heightened restrictions on the trips abroad that he can take with committee money as well as the hearings he can hold through the subcommittee on Europe that he chairs.
When the California congressman made a pilgrimage this summer to see Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, he had to do it on his own dime. A congressional source told The Daily Beast that Rohrabacher had requested committee funding for the trip but was denied. The congressmans staff confirmed that he ended up using his own money.
His committee travel and hearing requests were curtailed following news accounts of his outside-the-box interest in Russia, Rohrabachers communications director, Ken Grubbs confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-leaders-refusing-to-pay-for-dana-rohrabachers-travel-over-russia-fears
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Carter has Liver Pills,,,,, I sure she will be taken care of!!!!!
get the red out
(13,466 posts)But they just try to limit him, while he goes on doing the will of Putin. This is one hell of a sick reality we are in!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)a 6' x 8' box with a steel toilet and bunks.
LiberalFighter
(50,947 posts)And then the group(s) funding it needs to be exposed so everyone knows.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)The fucking moron and he are so close they wouldn't need adjoining cells in prison since they are essentially the same person.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)You think??????
I'm glad they are figuring this out.