House Democrats will skip questions on Ross's ethics violations at public hearing

[RockRaven]

2. It is also harder to claim you just "misspoke" when you've written, edited, & had your lawyers check

your written responses. If he lies on paper then he's tying his own noose. I say go ahead and give him some rope.

They can always try to force him to testify in person later, and their chances of success/failure with that are not materially changed by letting him submit written testimony under penalty of perjury right now.