Posted on 03/15/2023 6:33:52 PM PDT by bitt
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security panel, abruptly walked out of a committee markup Wednesday morning after clashing with the panel’s chairman, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), over amendments.
Paul vented his frustration over Peters’s use of procedural tactics to effectively shield Democrats on the committee from voting on Republican amendments to the Fire Grants and Safety Act.
Peters offered second-degree amendments to the Republican-sponsored amendments that completely gutted their content.
At one point, Paul suggested that all the Republican members walk out of the committee meeting.
“If this is the way you’re going to run the committee, I would suggest that Republicans leave. I don’t see why we should stick around if you’re going to make up the rules,” Paul said hotly.
The atmosphere in the room got so tense that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), who left the Democratic Party to become an Independent in December, suggested that “we all take a couple minutes, lower the temperature, just figure out the procedure.”
“There’s no need for us to turn this committee hearing into a partisan, ugly place like we’ve seen in other committees,” she pleaded.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) stayed in the room to vote against the amendments modified by Democrats after Paul walked out.
The acrimonious scene was a departure from how the Homeland Security Committee operated in 2021 and 2022, when Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) served as the panel’s ranking member.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7IjaIre7u4
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At today’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) pushed back on Democratic calls to not add amendments to a firefighter funding bill.
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“The acrimonious scene was a departure from how the Homeland Security Committee operated in 2021 and 2022, when Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) served as the panel’s ranking member.”
That’s because senator Rob Portman (R-OH) was a RINO who was happy to “work with his friends on the other side of the aisle”.
Paul and the Repubs need WWPD [What Would Pelosi Do].
IIRC, she had some committees meet but excluded Republican members.
Paul should do the same — hold the meeting but bar Dems from being allowed in. Pubbies need to muscle up and quit being whimps giving into Dems. Dems are in the minority. Act like it.
Good for Paul. Sorry Hawley folded.
Rob Portman was a pushover. A go-along-to-get-along fake Republican.
Probably a chairman could move things along those lines. A ranking member, not so much.
Paul is not the chair of this committee and the senate is still a Dem majority.
This is the Senate. Dems are the majority by the “independents” joining them every time.
Oblivious or (more likely) indifferent to the resulting damage inflicted on America and Americans.
Rand Paul Threatens Gary Peters With Walkout, Causing Sinema To Call To ‘Lower The Temperature’
Mar 15, 2023
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In today’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, sparks flew between Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), leading to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) to call for the temperature to be lowered.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IBHjpRWyww
We have to remember that Gary “I’m A Real Peter” Peters was installed by election fraud in Michigan.
earlier in the meeting? Is this what set the dems off?
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At today’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) responded to the unanimous House vote to declassify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I like Paul.
If he’d run for President I’d consider him too.
That's the story, not the theater.
Stolen elections have consequences.
good for Sen. Paul.
Kinda hard to do in the minority. I mean they could have a meeting but nothing would come of it. Pelosi could do this as she had a healthy majority.
This will only stop when Demonicrat politicians are tried, convicted, and sentenced for their giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
See how fast they run and hide when this comes to pass
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