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Home Front: Politix
Democrats skip out on Countrywide vote
2009-10-17
The committee's Democrats simply failed to appear. Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35
Faced with a promised vote to subpoena documents on Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fled a scheduled 2 p.m. markup today.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, had promised to call for a vote at today's markup on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic government officials, including two senators.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the program might have also benefitted the chairman of House Oversight, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.

Even if it had been ruled out of Order, Issa's motion would have received a vote.

The committee's Democrats simply failed to appear. Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Can't say I'm surprised.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-10-17 16:02  

#6  It would be nice to know who skipped. If my Congressman was one of them, he would get an email.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-10-17 12:14  

#5  should've HT'd Weasel Zippers for that
Posted by: Frank G   2009-10-17 12:02  

#4  
Posted by: Frank G   2009-10-17 11:34  

#3  Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35.

Doing what they do best.
Posted by: Besoeker in Duitsland   2009-10-17 01:53  

#2  And CNN will run this a day after the NYT?
Posted by: gorb   2009-10-17 00:26  

#1  A Culture of Corruption
Posted by: badanov   2009-10-17 00:25  

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