Walk of Shame - List of Names
As Katie reported yesterday,
every Democrat attending the House Oversight and Government Reform hearing
today on Benghazi -- except for Elijah Cummings and Jackie Spier -- left the
hearing room without offering the victims' families the courtesy even of
hearing their testimony.
What shoddy
disgraces.
So who were
these people? Chairman Issa's spokesman reported that fourteen Democrats
attended the first part of the hearing. There are 18 Democrats on the committee.
That means that 4 didn't attend any of the hearing, and 12 others walked out.
Below is a list
of the congressmen whose staffs confirmed they attended yesterday's hearing. These are people who evidently walked out without
waiting to hear from the families of those murdered in Benghazi:
·
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York
·
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of
Columbia
·
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
·
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Virginia
·
Rep. Mark Pocan, Wisconsin
·
Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois***
·
Rep. Danny K. Davis, Illinois
·
Rep. Tony Cardenas, California
·
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico
**
Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth should, in my view, be particularly ashamed, as she is a veteran
of the Iraq war, a former assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and a former
Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.
The following
offices either couldn't or wouldn't provide an answer about the simple
whereabouts of congressmen yesterday -- so they may or may not have been at the
hearing:
·
Rep. John F. Tierney, Massachusetts. (This office wins the dubious distinction of having the rudest
staff)
·
Rep. Matt Cartwright, Pennsylvannia
·
Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont
·
Rep. Steven Horsford, Nevada
Finally, these
two offices noted that the congressmen hadn't attended any of yesterday's
hearing.
·
Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee
·
Rep. Robin Kelly, Illinois
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