David Swanson-Live blogging from Congressional Progressive Caucus Committee Chairs Conference

First of all...What is up with this???

"Prior to this I just sat through a hearing which Pelosi scheduled 12 votes in the middle of, exactly as the Republicans used to do. Conyers subpoenaed no documents or people and put noone under oath. The media left in the middle because of all the votes. And the media was less than it had been when Conyers' hearings were unofficial minority affairs."
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Why aren't Pelosi and Conyers working together, and WHY isn't Conyers being more forceful? No Subpeonas! NOone under oath? :wtf:

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Conyers described signing statements as Bush placing himself above the law.

"You talk about removing Bush. How do you remove Bush without removing Cheney? …An election is coming in 08. So, we'll be holding oversight hearings. What I want to do is make sure that we have a very clear record. There are a lot of books out now exposing the Bush Administration….The Bush Administration and their allies have been given a vote of no-confidence. But it is up to the Democrats to prove themselves and win a vote of confidence. So we have a list of issues: health care, etc…, signing statements, voter intergrity, ending the war in Iraq by the Constitutional means of exercising the power of the purse to do that….He's not the commander in chief of citizens. He can't fire us. We can fire him."

Nichols: What if we get to a crisis where the president refuses to cooperate (e.g. with the use of the power of the purse)?

Conyers: Then we get to the point of removing him from office. ...

4:40 Now Kucinich is up. Nichols asked how Congress can prevent a war in Iran. Kucinich replied that Bush is planning an air attack.

The room is packed! People are having to stand now.

Kucinich: The closer they get to attacking to Iran, the closer they get to . He said it without saying the word.

Then he said what they're doing toward Iraq is exactly the same as what they've been doing. (But then why not impeach them now or years ago?)

Dennis is talking about cutting off war funding. Nobody has mentioned what their committeed will do yet.

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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2007/2392

Thank you David Swanson:applause:

Live blogging from Congressional Progressive Caucus Committee Chairs Conference

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