Posted on 02/08/2019 11:17:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Democrat to acting AG: 'We are not joking here'
By Morgan Chalfant - 02/08/19 12:26 PM EST
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) chided acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker for behaving in an unacceptable manner during a confrontational House Judiciary Committee hearing Friday.
“Mr. attorney general, we are not joking here,” Jackson Lee said. “And your humor is not acceptable.”
The tense exchange came as the congresswoman asked Whitaker a series of yes or no questions about his role at the Justice Department and oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Members often asked yes or no questions during oversight hearings in order to cycle through more inquiries within the five-minute time limit they have for questions.
Whitaker tries to run out the clock instead of answering @JacksonLeeTX18's extremely straightforward question about if he's testified during an oversight hearing before.
"Mr attorney general, we are not joking here and your humor is not acceptable," she admonishes him. pic.twitter.com/LP0aaikYre — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2019
At one point, Jackson Lee was interrupted and asked for her time to be restored.
“Can the clock be restored?” Jackson Lee asked.
Whitaker quipped in response, “I don’t know if your time has been restored or not.”
Jackson Lee then chastised Whitaker for his humor and said he was there “because we have a constitutional duty to ask questions and the Congress has the right to establish government rules.”
“The rules are that you are here, so I need to ask the question and I need to have my time restored so that you can behave appropriately, I will behave appropriately as a member of the Judiciary Committee,” Jackson Lee said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“Sleeza Jackson-Lee couldn’t think her way out of a wet paper bag!”
But with a face like that I am sure she has seen the inside of many a paper bag.
Hey Sheila we’re not kidding either. You straighten your ass out or its Gitmo for you!
It’s about time to take the gloves off and destroy these people.
What's Driving Miss Shelia?
TIM FLECK | FEBRUARY 20, 1997 | Houston Press
Only five days into her first term as a member of Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee hurried into her small office in the Longworth Building. Back home, while serving on the Houston City Council, Lee had forged a reputation as a brusque and imperious boss, and her short time in Washington hadn't changed her. "I want that ASAP" seemed to be her favorite phrase -- and on this day, she had a rush order for her legislative director, Meredith Jones.
In January 1995, the 104th Congress was fizzing with the arrival of Newt Gingrich's freshman warriors. Lee, one of the relatively few new Democrats, was determined to make a splash on the House floor.
Lee coolly informed Jones that the staff had 30 minutes to craft an amendment to a piece of legislation that neither they, nor Lee, had ever seen.
Unlike Lee, Jones was an old hand on Capitol Hill, a ten-year veteran who had worked for Congressman Mike Andrews. She had a reputation as a nuts-and-bolts operative and seemed the perfect navigator for a freshman legislator unfamiliar with Washington do's and don'ts.
Clearly, what Lee was requesting was a don't: Don't waste the time of the other 434 members of the House with a frivolous, ill-considered amendment. A former Lee staffer explains the absurdity of the congresswoman's demand: "Look, you're a freshman. You're in the minority. You don't even know what the goddamn bill is that's being offered. How are you going to offer an amendment to it when you don't even know where the ladies' bathroom is?"
Jones tried not to offend her new employer as she gently explained that rushing to the floor with a slipshod amendment would only damage Lee's credibility. Give the staff more time, pleaded Jones, to do some research and come up with amendments that had a chance of attracting respectful discussion, if not passage, in the Republican-controlled chamber.
Lee glared. When Jones finished, the congresswoman barked, "You now have 29 minutes!"
That incident reveals much about Sheila Jackson Lee. Jones did produce an amendment -- but like a myriad of others that the congresswoman offered in her first term, it went nowhere, while alienating the very people who could make it possible for her to represent her district effectively.
It's a cost Lee has been willing to bear as she pursues other imperatives: Speak, Be Seen, Be Quoted. She won her seat in Congress by defeating Craig Washington, who had lost contact with his constituents. Lee is determined not to make the same mistake, and frenetically tries to ensure that voters in the 18th Congressional District hear and see her on an almost daily basis.
In case the folks back home didn't know that the new congresswoman was hard at work, Lee instructed her staff to spew out mounds of press releases, sometimes four or five a day.
Aides were also told to write "special orders" speeches for Lee to deliver at the end of the day to an empty House chamber -- and, more important, to a C-Span camera, and thus to cable-TV viewers in Houston. Lee also demanded scripts for the one-minute partisan presentations that members make at the start of the House's daily sessions.
It's not unusual for members to make such speeches, but Lee wanted to make one almost every day. As her term wore on, other members of Congress compared her to the kid in the Life cereal commercial: "She's like Mikey. Give it to Mikey, he eats anything. Give it to Sheila, she speaks on anything."
........most former employees interviewed by the Houston Press say they'd never repeat the experience.
"She is the boss from hell," says one former assistant, a young black woman. "She treats everybody like her slaves. To give you an idea of what I thought my [time] with Sheila was like, it was a slave plantation, and she was the master."
Meredith Jones, the aide commanded to produce an amendment in 30 minutes, won't discuss the specifics of her short employment by Lee, but Jones's resignation has become legend among the congresswoman's staff.
After 11 frustrating days on the job, Jones faced her office computer terminal, tapped out a letter of resignation and walked to the Capitol, where Lee was attending a Judiciary Committee meeting. Jones approached as her boss was asking a question, deposited her letter and walked away. For once, Lee was speechless.
Lee didn't bring a car to Washington and declined to lease one. Instead, she depended on her staff to get her around.
"She would give me a time to pick her up in the morning," remembers a former staffer. "You'd get there every morning, usually around nine, and you'd wait between 30 minutes to an hour. Just sitting there, doing nothing."
That petty humiliation particularly grated. "She'd ask you to be there at nine, waiting, summer, winter, spring," remembers another reluctant driver. "Then it would be ten o'clock and she would still not be there. You'd wait the longest time and she would still not be there .... If it was terribly cold or hot, you're sitting there in your suit, sweating in this metal oven. Or freezing."
More galling than the actual driving was Lee's attitude toward her drivers. "She just didn't care," says a former legislative assistant. "She'd come down an hour late and want you to open the door for her .... She's not cognizant of anybody except herself. Everything revolves around her."
Other members of Congress live in Lee's building, less than three short blocks from the Capitol. While waiting for Lee, her staffers watched other lawmakers walk out of the building, laughing and talking, drinking coffee and enjoying the short walk to work. Sometimes, after Lee finally appeared, she would offer rides to her pedestrian colleagues. Her drivers do not recall anyone ever accepting the offer.
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rest at http://www.houstonpress.com/news/rockets-try-to-extend-winning-streak-to-four-against-chris-pauls-former-team-1012158
Hey lee is Black damnit.
You can’t say that.
Protected class and all.
You. Must be a whitey.
She jabbed and pointed her finger at him the entire five minutes. I honestly don’t know what kept him in his seat. This is the most hostile hearing I have ever seen. The Democrat’s sociopathy is on full display today.
My exact thought!
Whitaker should have begun the hearings by simply asking for any congresscritter that hasn’t already made up their mind as to how they’re going to vote, to please stand up.
Make them actually rise and falsely claim that they’re open-minded, when we all know they’re not.
Shebitch didn’t mind Hitlery Rotten Clinton mocking the proceedings of her own investigation with wisecracks about Nana Pickles wiping her server “with a cloth”. Obstruction. Destruction. Contempt.
There are many pathetic nitwits in convress.
“... I will behave appropriately as a member of the Judiciary Committee,” Jackson Lee said.”
That’s gotta be a first!
Ya know, if she didn’t put blonde streaks in her hair, she would look an awful lot like AOCortez
LOL!!
I’m sorry,Representative Jackson Lee...I was just trying to picture a US flag on Mars.”
Any committee with Slob Nadler and “Cow-flop on her haid” Lee is a sick joke to begin with.
Sheila Jackson Lee To Resign Chair of Congressional Black Caucus Amid Claims She Retaliated Against Rape Victim…
NEW: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee intends to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, after being named in a lawsuit accusing her of retaliating against a staffer who planned to sue the CBCF over an alleged rape by a former CBCF employee https://t.co/2x73FHVJyv
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) January 23, 2019 Sheila Jackson Lee intends to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, after being named in a lawsuit accusing her of retaliating against a staffer who planned to sue the CBCF over an alleged rape by a former CBCF employee.
An EMBARRASSMENT to TEXANS! Jackson Lee also lost her post as top Dem on a Judiciary Committee! Sheila Jackson Lee ousted as chair of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after lawsuit – Washington Times https://t.co/U0seQFOiBg — Rose (@rosedixontx) January 23, 2019
SJL also leaving House Judiciary Committee… BREAKING: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is resigning from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and is temporarily stepping down from the House Judiciary subcommittee after an aide accused her of being fired for reporting sexual assault https://t.co/VWMhKM2Akw — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 23, 2019
Yes, during the entire hearing, the Dims behavior was extremely hostile.
They were able to get their talking points in making Trump/Trump associates appear to be the crooks, where in reality....they themselves are the crooks.
Unreal. GOP/R’s should’ve called them out, immediately, for each one of their false accusations. At the very least, they should be holding a presser, ASAP, to call these lying fools out.
Sheila has no business running anything, elected office or an office staff on the private sector. She’s consistently rated the worst person to work for.
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