Elijah Cummings blasts GOP inaction on Russia after Reps. Chaffetz & Lynch erupt in shouting match
Raw Story
February 2, 2017
On Thursday, a House Oversight Committee hearing regarding Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election erupted in a shouting match between committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
According to The Hill.com, the committee was debating whether they should pursue a public investigation into last year's cyber attacks on U.S. political organizations, including the servers of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Thus far, investigation of the interference has been restricted to a single committee, the Intelligence Committee, which includes members of the House and Senate, but whose proceedings are confidential.
"It's clear that politics have prevented this committee from being willing or able to do the necessary objective and nonpartisan oversight on the Russian attack," said Rep. Robyn Kelly (D-IL).
Chaffetz argued that studying how the evidence was gathered in the investigation is in the purview of the Intelligence Committee and that it would be "inappropriate" for the House Oversight Committee to "dive into the private systems of a political party."
"That's not anybody else's work. That's our work. There's plenty of reports we can talk about -- and we ought to do it publicly -- about the damage done to the confidence in our electoral system. That's what's important here," objected Lynch.
"We had nine separate investigations into Hillary Clinton..."
He was interrupted when Chaffetz ruled him to be out of order.
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