A civil war at the 111th us congress
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
By Susan Crabtree - 10/20/09 05:47 PM ET
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats
aren’t present.
Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican
on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch
an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.
For Cambodia ?
WHAT RIGHTS DO THESE VIETNAMESE INVADERS HAVE TO RUN CAMBODIA IN VIOLATION OF
THE 10 UN RESOLUTION?
SOLUTIONS?
VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA IS CONDEMNED:
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
Again Vietnam, has not respected the 10 UN resolutions calling Vietnam to cease
her occupation of Cambodia and remove all her troops from the country.
America too, she sees the Vietnamese leaders as liars expressed in this
statement made by the US President Reagan.
US president Reagan calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence .
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
ALL THE VIETNAMESE INVADERS, AND ILLEGAL VIETNAMESE SETTLERS, MUST RETURN HOME,
TO VIETNAM, AND RESPECT THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS.
Bury
For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the
case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an
open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was
abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained
empty.
Republicans charged that Towns cancelled the meeting to avoid the subpoena
vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with
the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a
disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the
mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.
A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate
meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He
spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the
hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the
Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained
as of press time.
Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the
video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman
said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the
locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the
business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings to be taped.
"It's not surprising that they would choose to retaliate given the
embarrassment we caused by catching them in a lie on tape,” said Issa spokesman
Kurt Bardella. “If only they
would use their creative energy to do some actual oversight rather than
resorting to immature tactics, but I guess we're getting some insight into what
lengths they'll go to avoid addressing the Countrywide VIP issue."
Towns’s office said in a statement the locks were changed on Republicans
"because they don't know how to behave." As for the video the GOP made, Towns's
office pointed out: "The minority is using taxpayer dollars to make these
campaign style videos."
The partisan sniping recalls a similarly bitter name-calling match between
House Republicans and Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee in 2003 when
Republicans controlled the majority and former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.)
chaired the panel. The episode ended in Thomas, known for his acerbic tongue,
summoning the Capitol Police to evict an outraged gaggle of Democratic
colleagues from a library in the Longworth House office building.
The committee had convened that morning to consider a bipartisan bill that
would revise the nation's pension and retirement-saving system.
Democrats objected when Thomas brought up a 90-page substitute measure that had
been released shortly before midnight the night before. Democrats said they
needed more time to read it. Thomas disagreed.
In response, Democrats objected to a normally perfunctory motion to dispense
with the reading of the dense legislation. A clerk obligingly began reading it
line by line.
Democrats departed to a library just off the main hearing room, leaving only
Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-Calif.) to prevent the Republicans from obtaining
unanimous consent to skip the reading. After a few minutes, Thomas asked again
for the unanimous consent, and instantly brought down his gavel. Stark told
reporters he had objected, but Thomas had replied, "You're too late."
Even before Thomas gaveled the reading to an end, he had directed staff to call
the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats form the library.
Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America, was reported to have given VIP loans
and treatment to lawmakers and officials at the federal and local level who
were in a position to influence policy affecting the mortgage giant. Issa has
repeatedly reminded Committee Democrats that Bank of America officials had said
they would turn over records on the VIP program – but only in response to a
subpoena.
Towns, who received a mortgage loan from Countrywide but insists he was not
part of the VIP program, has said he declined to launch an investigation
because he does not want to interfere with an ongoing Justice Department probe
into the matter.
-- This article was updated at 6:59 p.m.
IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM
KHMER KILLER LIKE THIS "Cambodia" Minister of Foreign Affairs , Hor Nam Hong(a
Vietnamese communist) .KHMER ROUGE CADRE ,AT BENG TRABEK SCHOOL (RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE 800 KHMER ELITE DEAD )
Former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav(Vietnamese communist ) has admitted
to condemning thousands of people to death as head of the Khmer Rouge's torture
center, Tuol Sleng.
HUN SEN'S VIETNAMESE MINISTERS.
1.
Acting as "Cambodia" Minister of Foreign Affairs , Hor Nam Hong has sent a
Vietnamese woman, in the name Mme You Aiy , as "Cambodian" Ambassador to
Thailand, not to protect Cambodian National interests, but to spy on all
Cambodian in Thailand and the Khmers in Surin, Boreiram,Si Saket as well...
2.
Chan Sarun( VIETNAMESE )
3.THIS VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL "CAMBODIAN"
Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, during a press conference held
on 04 January 2009. KHIEU KANHARITH , A VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL"CAMBODIAN"
4. HUN SEN'S VIETNAMESE CPP/MP Chiem Yeap
Radio Free Asia
By San Suwit
5th March, 2009
Reported in English by Khmerization
Mr. Cheam Yeap(vietnamese ) (pictured), MP from the ruling Cambodian People's
Party (CPP),
5. HUN SEN'S VIETNAMESE AT INTERPOLE
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