| After the all-male panel on birth control in the House Oversight Committee last week (wait, I'm supposed to be fair and say that the SECOND panel of the day had a couple women on it), plenty of people joked on Twitter about an all-female panel on Viagra. House Democrats aren't doing that, but they are giving their star witness from the Oversight Committee panel, the one Darrell Issa didn't allow to testify, a chance to speak. The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will hold a hearing Thursday morning on women's health. And there will be only one witness: Sandra Fluke, the third-year Georgetown law student who Oversight Committee Democrats wanted to testify at the birth control hearing. According to Greg Sargent, this is the beginning of a more concerted effort to highlight women's health. |
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