Neither the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, nor the International Relations Committee has held a single official hearing or heard from even one witness on any of these matters since the Downing Street documents were first revealed almost a year ago.
The Judiciary Committee Democrats held their own hearing to investigate the Downing Street documents in June of last year in a small room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building after Republicans denied them the use of an official hearing room. All Republican members of the Committee, though they were invited, refused to attend. As well, the House Leadership scheduled an historically unprecedented 11 roll-call votes in a row that day in apparent hopes of disrupting the hearings. |