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Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 1478 Comments: 10 Congress Contraception Panel Is All Male Congress Contraception Panel Is All Male Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women. Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.” And so Cummings, along with the Democratic women on the panel, took their request to the hearing room, demanding that Issa consider the testimony of a female college student. But the California congressman insisted that the hearing should focus on the rules’ alleged infringement on “religious liberty,” not contraception coverage, and denied the request. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of the hearing in protest of his decision, citing frustration over the fact that the first panel of witnesses consisted only of male religious leaders against the rule. Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” Issa also dismissed the Democrats’ woman witness as a “college student’ who does not “have the appropriate credentials” to testify before his committee. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/16/426850/democratic-women-boycott-issas-contraception-hearing-for-preventing-women-from-testifying/?mobile=nc User: BoogeBoogieston Feb 16, 2012 9:59 AM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 321 Comments: 4 Eleanor Holmes Norton: I Am for Sale Eleanor Holmes Norton: I Am for Sale Big Government Exclusive: Delegate to Congress for the District of Columbia Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton leaves voicemail citing her seniority and stimulus-based projects in lobbyist's "sector". "I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don't have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it's been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it's been essentially in your sector. I am, I'm simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds." User: White_Wolf Sep 18, 2010 1:30 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 492 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: Dc Voting Rights Act: Eleanor Holmes Norton Colbert Report: Dc Voting Rights Act: Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton will give Stephen a key to DC when residents get their voting rights. From The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. Feb 12, 2009 10:58 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 767 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Colbert Report: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Super delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton tells Stephen that the days of smoke filled rooms are over. From The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. Feb 13, 2008 1:01 AM
 
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