Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Senator doesn't realize he's at wrong hearing
Sun Times ^ | 04/03/2014 | Chad Merda

Posted on 04/04/2014 2:11:09 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) may want to pay more attention next time. On Wednesday, he showed up at the wrong hearing, then asked the wrong witness a fairly long question that had nothing to do with the hearing he was in.

It took a note from a staffer to inform him he was in the wrong place, The Washington Post reports.

"I just got a note saying I’m at the wrong hearing,” Coats said.

He was supposed to be at a hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, but instead showed up at an appropriations hearing on the budgets for the Defense Department and Army.

Here's the full transcript of how it went down, which is pretty incredible:

SENATOR DAN COATS: OK, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to follow up on a parochial question, if you don’t mind, and that is the Indiana delegation sent to the Pentagon, Undersecretary Hale, a letter dated March 24th, asking some questions about the AMFO initiative. That’s the Army financial management optimization program. Number one, I want to commend you because, unprecedented in my career, we received a letter back on March 26th, of the same year. So I’m very impressed with that. A word of thanks there in terms of response.

And I was just looking through that letter. It actually went to Congressman Carson. There are a number of us, both senators and members of our congressional delegation. And the question is on the review of this new system. It potentially involves here, and I quote from the letter, possibly including reductions in numbers of DFAS personnel at certain locations. We will make every effort to accommodate any changes through attrition.

I’m not here to get a specific answer from you but to better understand what is happening and how — I think there’s probably a trial plan that’s going to be put in place, if that rings a bell. What is you’re trying to accomplish and what are some of the consequences of that going to be to the current DFAS system, locations, personnel, et cetera?

SEN. TOM UDALL: Undersecretary Cohen, I just wanted to –

COATS: I just got a note saying I’m at the wrong hearing.

UDALL: Oh, OK.

COATS: I’ve got the right room number but the wrong hearing.

COHEN: Well, that would explain why I didn’t know anything about this letter. (Laughter.)

COATS: Well, this is the first time this has ever happened to me, but I hope it’s not a precursor of what –

UDALL: You’re always welcome in our committee.

COATS: Well, thank you. I saw some familiar faces and I thought this is where I should be.

COHEN: Thank you, Senator.

COATS: I hope you’re able to respond as quickly as the undersecretary of the Army responded. I’ll go try to find out where I’m supposed to be. Thank you.


TOPICS: Indiana; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: dancoats; oops; whereami
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-26 last
To: fieldmarshaldj

I think he means in 1980. Bayh Sr.


21 posted on 04/04/2014 3:26:17 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: ObamahatesPACoal

Dan Quayle did that.


22 posted on 04/04/2014 3:27:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Hulka

Aside fromt he pain one feels for someone so ignorant of basic science, it is frightening to contemplate that Rep. Jefferson’s constituents actually keep returning him to office to represent THEM!


23 posted on 04/04/2014 4:04:19 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN

Enough to make you sick, isn’t it.


24 posted on 04/04/2014 4:06:00 PM PDT by Hulka
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Hulka
Scares the hell out of me, because many of them vote more than once, thus their stupidity carries an inordinate weight for the direction of the Republic. ... But what the hell, this is no longer a Republic where We The People are the sovereigns anyway ...
25 posted on 04/04/2014 4:09:11 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Most of these creeps are sociopathic dolts. What kind of intelligence does it take to be a politician? Not much.


26 posted on 04/04/2014 10:52:57 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-26 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson