The Art of Senate Stoppage
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
When we’re choosing a leader for the nation’s central banking system, one of the important things to consider is whether Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has heard enough testimony about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Allow me to explain.
President Obama’s nominee to be the next head of the Federal Reserve Board is Janet Yellen. The Senate banking committee is grilling her on Thursday, and there should be a lot of questions about unemployment and inflation.
However, that could all wind up being beside the point. Senator Graham says he is going to place a “hold” on Yellen and all other pending nominations because he doesn’t believe Congress has had a chance to interview enough people who were present in the Benghazi compound when four Americans were tragically killed.
“Where are the Benghazi survivors? I’m going to block every appointment in the U.S. Senate until they are made available to Congress,” he twittered recently.
(More here.)
When we’re choosing a leader for the nation’s central banking system, one of the important things to consider is whether Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has heard enough testimony about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Allow me to explain.
President Obama’s nominee to be the next head of the Federal Reserve Board is Janet Yellen. The Senate banking committee is grilling her on Thursday, and there should be a lot of questions about unemployment and inflation.
However, that could all wind up being beside the point. Senator Graham says he is going to place a “hold” on Yellen and all other pending nominations because he doesn’t believe Congress has had a chance to interview enough people who were present in the Benghazi compound when four Americans were tragically killed.
“Where are the Benghazi survivors? I’m going to block every appointment in the U.S. Senate until they are made available to Congress,” he twittered recently.
(More here.)
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This whole mess could have been avoided had the administration been honest and forthright from the beginning. Continuing the story about the riots/protests over the film for days and day after everyone knew the story was false was not only foolish, it was, once again, breaking trust with the American people. We are finding out 'why it matters.'
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