And .. do you know why they were meeting in the basement ..??
It seems that right after the repubs took back the Senate, the dems continued to try to hold hearings - which they are not allowed to do - not as far as the legitimate hearing rooms are concerned. Once while the dems had a hearing in progress, Frist's head aide - called the office of the dem who was holding the hearing and told the dem's staffer what he was witnessing on his closed circuit TV - the dems acting like they were the chairman of the committee and holding hearings; calling witnesses, etc. Frist's aide politely told them STOP IT - and he better not see that happening again!!
This forced the dems to take to the basement to hold their PHONEY HEARINGS - still with no authority to call witnesses or any such stuff. But .. C-SPAN continues to support their little PHONEY HEARINGS because it's more hate-Bush garbage.
Gosh...it looks like the "plantation workers" were having a televised meeting to take out the "massa"....LOL