Hearing Without Listening
Mar 25th, 2006 at 3:50 pm by Susie
Arlen, you’re such a wit:
WASHINGTON, March 24 — The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing for next Friday on the call by Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, to censure President Bush for his approval of a program to allow electronic eavesdropping without warrants.
Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the panel, said he had decided to schedule the session after Mr. Feingold, in a television interview, pressed for hearings on the censure proposal. [...]
Mr. Specter said his intent was not to use the session as a political forum but to explore issues surrounding the proposed censure. He said he believed the proposal was baseless.
“I am prepared to deal with it,” Mr. Specter said. “I am sure not going to sit back and have Feingold spout off.”
