Rosa DeLauro Pitches Plan To Boycott Benghazi Committee While Still Keeping An Eye On It

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Rosa DeLauro Pitches Plan To Boycott Benghazi Committee While Still Keeping An Eye On It

by Ashley Alman and Sam Stein at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/rosa-delauro-benghazi-committee_n_5291804.html

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) on Thursday night tried to find a way to satisfy both concerns. The Connecticut Democrat circulated a plan to colleagues encouraging them to appoint just one Democratic representative to the committee. From her "Dear Colleague" letter comes this:


One discussed option is to name a full complement of five Democratic members to monitor and engage in the process. Another discussed option is to fully boycott the committee. Pursuing this option, however, would leave our caucus with no voice to engage in committee proceedings.

If there is a sense of the caucus that we should participate, I suggest you consider a third option: naming just one Democratic member as an official panel participant. Such a participant could maintain Democratic access to committee proceedings and material, question witnesses, monitor the House Majority’s activities and provide a powerful voice to raise issues and make appropriate public comments.



A top Democratic aide in the House said that members were paying attention to the DeLauro proposal, which was discussed informally in prior conversations between members.



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[cheyanne]

1. Do committee members get equal time to question witnesses?

If demos have more participants, will they have more time on the mike?