Posted on 10/03/2019 4:27:50 AM PDT by Magnatron
House Republicans are demanding an “equal playing field” in the Democrat-led impeachment probe against President Trump after Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said ahead of Thursday’s scheduled testimony from former U.S. envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker that GOP members of the Foreign Affairs Committee will not be permitted to ask questions or have equal representation during the hearing.
Volker is scheduled to be the first key witness to testify as part of a probe into an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint about a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s family’s dealings in the country. The interview will be behind closed doors.
The lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote Wednesday evening: “I was alarmed to learn – less than 24 hours before the first interview is scheduled to start – that it will be led by the Intelligence Committee and that questioning will be done solely by their staff.”
“We were told that only a single Republican professional staffer from the Foreign Affairs Committee will be allowed to attend while the majority will have two,” Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the committee’s ranking member, continued. “These constraints on committee and Republican participation are unacceptable and at odds with House Rules and general fairness. We demand equal representation and participation in this inquiry, there is too much at stake for America and Congress.”
In the letter addressed to Chairman Eliot L. Engel, D-N.Y., McCaul further argued that despite statements made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats, “there is not a “House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry” because the entire House has not voted on the matter.
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The longer the temper tantrum lasts, the more it will annoy the observers. The process the DEMs have engineered has barely been revealed to the public.
The GOP is literally shut out. Participation completely denied. Fair? It is if you are a DEM.
The subpoenas are fake, not enforceable in court. Sold as real subpoenas to the pubic. Honest? It is if you are a DEM.
Tell the public what process the DEMs hold out as fair and honest. Tell them. Then let the public decide if they want to associate with that.
But it takes time for this to percolate into the public awareness. Meanwhile, not much harm or wasted energy in letting them act out like the defects they are.
Let them run with this. It taints the whole party. The ones who would vote against impeachment are being lumped in with Pelosi's wrecking crew, and they don't get to vote on it either. They are implicitly in favor.
“House Republicans are demanding an “equal playing field” in the Democrat-led impeachment probe against President Trump after Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said ahead of Thursday’s scheduled testimony from former U.S. envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker that GOP members of the Foreign Affairs Committee will not be permitted to ask questions or have equal representation during the hearing. “
This is regrettable but necessary, in order to uphold the Constitution and the Rule of Law./SARC!
Oh, and democracy. I forgot to mention democracy. My bad./s
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