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GOP Chairman [Sensenbrenner] Walks Out of Meeting
YAHOO NEWS ^ | 06/10/2005 | JIM ABRAMS

Posted on 06/10/2005 2:05:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.

The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared that much of the testimony, which veered into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., protested, raising his voice as his microphone went off, came back on, and went off again.

"We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it," he said.

Democrats asked for the hearing, the 11th the committee has held on the act since April, saying past hearings had been too slanted toward witnesses who supported the law. The four witnesses were from groups, including Amnesty International USA and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, that have questioned the constitutionality of some aspects of the act, which allows law enforcement greater authority to investigate suspected terrorists.

Nadler said Sensenbrenner, one of the authors of the Patriot Act, was "rather rude, cutting everybody off in mid-sentence with an attitude of total hostility."

Tempers flared when Rep. Mike Pence (news, bio, voting record), R-Ind., accused Amnesty International of endangering the lives of Americans in uniform by referring to the prison at Guantanamo Bay as a "gulag." Sensenbrenner didn't allow the Amnesty representative, Chip Pitts, to respond until Nadler raised a "point of decency."

Sensenbrenner's spokesman, Jeff Lungren, said the hearing had lasted two hours and "the chairman was very accommodating, giving members extra time."

James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, speaking immediately after Sensenbrenner left, voiced dismay over the proceedings. "I'm troubled about what kind of lesson this gives" to the rest of the world, he told the Democrats remaining in the room.

Senate Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement, said the hearing was an example of Republican abuse of power and she would ask House Speaker Dennis Hastert to order an apology from Sensenbrenner.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 109th; gop; meeting; rats; sensenbrenner
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Dems caring more about terrorist scumbuckets than they are about protecting the U.S., as usua.
1 posted on 06/10/2005 2:05:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

bump for later read.

Thunderstorm brewing here.


2 posted on 06/10/2005 2:07:05 PM PDT by Peach
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If the Dems were embarrassing themselves, the microphone would have been left on, no?


3 posted on 06/10/2005 2:07:52 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Nice to see the Republicans not putting up with the Rats bad behavior. There is such a thing as being too nice.


4 posted on 06/10/2005 2:08:14 PM PDT by TheDon (Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
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What kind of people take this bug eyed nutjob seriously???????????

5 posted on 06/10/2005 2:08:38 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, speaking immediately after Sensenbrenner left, voiced dismay over the proceedings.

and just why is this islamist there?

6 posted on 06/10/2005 2:09:14 PM PDT by petercooper (Put Mark Levin on the Supreme Court.)
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James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, speaking immediately after Sensenbrenner left, voiced dismay over the proceedings. "I'm troubled about what kind of lesson this gives" to the rest of the world, he told the Democrats remaining in the room.

Yeah. "In America, those fools let the Amnesty International lawyers speak. Back home, we simply stand them up against the nearest wall and shoot them. Oh, those stupid decadent infidel Americans!"

7 posted on 06/10/2005 2:09:35 PM PDT by brbethke
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Let's not be naive here.... Unless we understand our enemy, something the democrats obviously fail to do, we will not defeat them. I suggest going to the savage nation http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/ site and view the tortures and beheadings of innocent people by the kind of scumbags now in Guantanamo...it is gut wrenching but after you've watched you realize what with whom we are dealing.

nick


8 posted on 06/10/2005 2:09:59 PM PDT by nikos1121
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Good Man, a Man of Ethics. And Steel Testicles.


9 posted on 06/10/2005 2:10:32 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: teenyelliott

Jennifer Wilbanks


10 posted on 06/10/2005 2:10:36 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: Darth Reagan

lol ping


11 posted on 06/10/2005 2:10:53 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I bet this is picked up on by Brit Hume tonight. While we still have the Patriot Act, let's send some of these seditious traitors down to Gitmo for a while, and get some meaningful legislation passed while they're gone.


12 posted on 06/10/2005 2:11:21 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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Senate Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement, said the hearing was an example of Republican abuse of power and she would ask House Speaker Dennis Hastert to order an apology from Sensenbrenner

Its the dems that should apologize for being born. But these Republican chairmen need to get control of the proceedings and the agenda.

13 posted on 06/10/2005 2:11:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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"James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, speaking immediately after Sensenbrenner left, voiced dismay over the proceedings. "I'm troubled about what kind of lesson this gives" to the rest of the world, he told the Democrats remaining in the room."

This is an indicator of why Zogby polls cannot be trusted.


14 posted on 06/10/2005 2:11:49 PM PDT by spoiler2
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Good Man, a Man of Ethics. And Steel Testicles.


Tell him to hold on to the steel testicles; he's gonna need them.


15 posted on 06/10/2005 2:12:05 PM PDT by soupcon
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Democrats asked for the hearing, the 11th the committee has held on the act since April, saying past hearings had been too slanted toward witnesses who supported the law. The four witnesses were from groups, including Amnesty International USA and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, that have questioned the constitutionality of some aspects of the act, which allows law enforcement greater authority to investigate suspected terrorists.

That's about all I need to know. Sensenbrenner gave them two hours to vent their spleen & apparently decided he had better things to do on a Friday afternoon. Can't argue with his decision.

16 posted on 06/10/2005 2:13:34 PM PDT by elli1
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"Senate Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, in a statement, said the hearing was an example of Republican abuse of power and she would ask House Speaker Dennis Hastert to order an apology from Sensenbrenner." More proof that the democraps have a trash Bush and the USA at every turn agenda ... these democrat bastards don't give a damn about the Patriot Act, but they sure love to trash this nation and this President. Reminds me of children throwing fits, if they can't have their way, they spit on anyone within range. Nadler and Pelosi are prime examples.


17 posted on 06/10/2005 2:13:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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Amnesty International USA and the American Immigration Lawyers Association

You gotta be kidding... I'm not for some of the provisions in the act, I would have walked also.

18 posted on 06/10/2005 2:13:46 PM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: teenyelliott

I don't.


19 posted on 06/10/2005 2:14:10 PM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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I saw that hearing this morning, it was a hoot!

All the dems and panel wanted to do was talk about Gitmo and Abu Ghraib--so did the panel---

Sensenbrenner got mad, because he said the hearing was supposed to be about the Patriot Act, not Gitmo!


20 posted on 06/10/2005 2:14:43 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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