House panel to hold hearing on white supremacist threat

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing next month about threats from extremist groups, including domestic terrorism, following a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.

The panel's chairman, Republican Representative Michael McCaul, announced the Sept. 12 hearing in a letter to the panel's top Democrat, Representative Bennie Thompson.

"We must stand together and reject racism, bigotry, and prejudice, including the hateful ideologies promoted by neo-Nazis, the KKK, and all other white supremacy groups," McCaul said.

McCaul's letter was in response to a request from Thompson and the other Democrats on the committee to hold a hearing on the subject. "It is past time for this Committee on Homeland Security to act," the Democrats wrote to McCaul.

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[Bladewire]

1. These panels take forever, do nothing..

It's only a gesture to make the GOP look like they don't support the racists that elected them

[spanone]

2. something to appease the outrage for the moment....these committees can disappear overnight

[lindysalsagal]

3. I'm sure they'll compose many sternly-worded letters

that will line the circular file.

[procon]

4. Curious to see who they pull in as witnesses.

If it's like some of the other hearings the Republicans have staged, like the one on healthcare that excluded women, they'll have stooges to blame Democrats.