Saturday, June 11, 2005

Shutting down hearings

It doesn't only happen in Canada:
The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.
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.

Fortunately, on most committees our obstructionist Cons can't do more than raise irrelevant points of order. And with any luck, as well as Harper's plummeting position, maybe another election will reduce their ability to do even that.

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