What Happened To House Oversight Committee Hearing for Today?

29  2016-09-27 by MostlyWong

There was a committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday at 11am over the weekend. What happened to it? It's now missing from the official calendar. Anyone have any screenshots of it being there before? I tried using the Internet Archive, but it doesn't have any trawls after September 10th. It was definitely there, there was one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. The one on Tuesday was specifically about the FBI. https://oversight.house.gov/calendar/

7 comments

8  bIackbrosinwhitehoes 2016-09-27

I just called the Oversight Committee (the number is publicly available on their website) and spoke to a very nice lady on the phone.

According to her, the hearing has been postponed "indefinitely". She clarified that isn't to mean that it's being put off, but she told me specifically that some documents were delivered to them recently (most likely the Comey/FBI subpeona'd documents) and had content in it that was causing them to look over it extremely thoroughly.

I'll take that as good news.

5  MostlyWong 2016-09-27

I talked to staffers with Rep. Gowdy as well, and they told me that the Judiciary Committee will be asking many of the questions that the Oversight Committee had been wanting to ask. Many key members of the Oversight Committee are also on the Judiciary Committee which will be having a hearing tomorrow at 9am, including Chairman Chaffetz and Rep. Gowdy.

3  MostlyWong 2016-09-27

You da real mvp, /u/blackbrosinwhitehoes. Thank you very much. That's an interesting development, though, and I wonder why it wasn't stated publicly. Embarrassing?

2  bIackbrosinwhitehoes 2016-09-27

My best guess is that it's just Tuesday. I imagine they got the documents yesterday after the weekend and had to act fast.

2  12-23-1913 2016-09-27

Optimism: I think the stonetear revelation was confirmed to be Paul, and they're researching the situation.

2  itsjeremyson 2016-09-27

I shared this on a post yesterday, up-voted multiple times than last night it disappeared. Dead link now.

I am not sure what happened to it.

3  MostlyWong 2016-09-27

I emailed my representative who is a member on the committee. If I hear back, I'll update with the stated reason.