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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:00 PM Feb 2012

Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying [View all]

Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying

By Igor Volsky on Feb 16, 2012 at 10:52 am

This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women and minorities 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.”

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/02/16/426850/democratic-women-boycott-issas-contraception-hearing-for-preventing-women-from-testifying/


Those allowed to testify today make up the tables and immediately behind, the rest of the room is made up of those NOT ALLOWED to testify.

Notice any particular "gender" difference?
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-republican-darrell-issa-runs.html

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Issa = Flaming Heap 'O Shite jpak Feb 2012 #1
I'm sure there are women voters in his district atreides1 Feb 2012 #8
exactly SemperEadem Feb 2012 #68
I am a woman voter in his district and I just let him know how I feel about that sham of a meeting. IndyJones Feb 2012 #99
Probably a few! elleng Feb 2012 #9
so women aren't religious too? WHat a sack of shit indeed. roguevalley Feb 2012 #52
According to Issa, they should submit to men and be seen - not heard jpak Feb 2012 #54
BWAHAHA! He never met my mother. :-D roguevalley Feb 2012 #64
Or mine! Or me! JustAnotherGen Feb 2012 #111
I live in the jerks distric xtraxritical Feb 2012 #62
Issa is the Biggest Asshat Who Ever Walked. vanlassie Feb 2012 #95
The republicans are so progressively 16th century graywarrior Feb 2012 #2
No they arent cstanleytech Feb 2012 #10
It had to be a liberal that invented the wheel graywarrior Feb 2012 #31
Yeah, a conservative caveman... Rozlee Feb 2012 #38
You forgot the part where the conservative caveman would have also cstanleytech Feb 2012 #79
Bunch of old limber-dicks with their nasty brown noses buried deep into women's business. Magoo48 Feb 2012 #67
OK, that's it, crunch60 Feb 2012 #102
That's what they're worried about onlyadream Feb 2012 #107
"in other news" Aerows Feb 2012 #108
I wish I would have saved the link crunch60 Feb 2012 #124
Yes, the GOP is currently composed of "Renaissance men" ... TahitiNut Feb 2012 #105
Next on the agenda: Do women have souls? lunatica Feb 2012 #113
Good work, Eleanor! elleng Feb 2012 #3
wow justabob Feb 2012 #4
Why didn't Cummings and the Democratic men walk out too? Richardo Feb 2012 #5
Good point. n/t kiranon Feb 2012 #32
Very good question. jwirr Feb 2012 #35
That's what I was thinking as well. nt LNM Feb 2012 #58
Yup. n/t progressoid Feb 2012 #72
My thoughts too. donheld Feb 2012 #96
And how about the good guys in the Senate? Carla in Sequim Feb 2012 #123
Pfft. What would women know about birth control? Liberal Veteran Feb 2012 #6
Pfft. What would women know about birth control? AlbertCat Feb 2012 #41
Just a guess, but I think that was sarcasm. Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #87
White Old Men zipplewrath Feb 2012 #7
I'm an old white guy. I'd never be a member of that Party. TrogL Feb 2012 #11
minor correction cstanleytech Feb 2012 #14
As an old white guy, I thank you for your rewrite... Magoo48 Feb 2012 #117
As a middle aged white guy I accept. cstanleytech Feb 2012 #118
The guy on the right is white? MNBrewer Feb 2012 #16
Token. southerncrone Feb 2012 #28
At that point they were doing their best to promote their sexism, racism was irrelevant lark Feb 2012 #34
Women should not have their health care trampled on by some male only religious panel... midnight Feb 2012 #12
Women shouldnt have their rights trampled on period! tech_smythe Feb 2012 #57
And women's Periods shouldn't be Trampled on annm4peace Feb 2012 #97
I hope that the Democrats remember to do the same to the GOP with their witnesses. kemah Feb 2012 #13
When Repubgs are treated sulphurdunn Feb 2012 #22
actually, it is precisely existentialist Feb 2012 #25
I hope we don't even have hearings on this stuff... SadPanda Feb 2012 #89
Scandalous, complete negation of the principles Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #15
It's amazing how Issa is able to constantly out-douchebag himself meegbear Feb 2012 #17
It is an incredible talent he has HangOnKids Feb 2012 #26
LOL! +1 (nt) PotatoChip Feb 2012 #73
I'd like to know how many of this panel of assholes Horse with no Name Feb 2012 #18
Women should just start not having sex with men. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2012 #19
Harsh. Perhaps just not with Republican men? Please. n/t SomeGuyInEagan Feb 2012 #21
What was that Greek play about that? csziggy Feb 2012 #121
Good idea, but.... southerncrone Feb 2012 #29
Fear of rape? Wah??? PotatoChip Feb 2012 #75
There are many occurrences southerncrone Feb 2012 #77
No men that I know fall into this "category" PotatoChip Feb 2012 #83
Not about getting laid, southerncrone Feb 2012 #122
What's next? GOP efforts to nix that pesky old 19th Amendment? catbyte Feb 2012 #20
How many Republicans sulphurdunn Feb 2012 #23
Sad, but true. catbyte Feb 2012 #24
have ever read Antigone? AlbertCat Feb 2012 #42
Or Winnie the Pooh. sulphurdunn Feb 2012 #55
What are their URLs? Are they on FiOS on Demand? 24601 Feb 2012 #88
The Stepfords are not programmed to refuse. southerncrone Feb 2012 #30
K&R Solly Mack Feb 2012 #27
My God is there anyone in this nation stupid enough to call this a democracy anymore? jwirr Feb 2012 #33
If they do, they are lying lark Feb 2012 #36
Is the corporate media Iliyah Feb 2012 #37
So according to Issa the subject experts are non-married male virgins? truebrit71 Feb 2012 #39
k&r n/t RainDog Feb 2012 #40
Alrighty then.... AlbertCat Feb 2012 #43
Jesus Christ Darrell Issa is a piece of shit. Arkana Feb 2012 #44
He's also trying to destroy the Post Office Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #82
One Would Guess That Not A Single Witness DallasNE Feb 2012 #45
Facebook and Twitter are eating him alive qanda Feb 2012 #46
Hand off Women's Health ( hashtag "#HOWH" ) trending on MarkCharles Feb 2012 #48
GOP trying to lose lobodons Feb 2012 #47
He's a liar, and that point should be cleared up before he gets to go any farther saras Feb 2012 #49
I'm surprised they didn't make the women wear veils. JNelson6563 Feb 2012 #50
Game of Dunces, what no bibles being held & shaken into the camera? Calling all women... katty Feb 2012 #51
What a bunch of sexist old assholes. liberal N proud Feb 2012 #53
+10,000,000,000 That's with a "B" Auntie Bush Feb 2012 #71
What is Issa afraid of? Someones opinion? WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2012 #56
This crap should fly back in their faces. kenfrequed Feb 2012 #59
Where is Lorena Bobbitt when you need her? Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #60
Beverage spew here!! Lifelong Protester Feb 2012 #69
Translation fifthoffive Feb 2012 #61
Craziness is: Letting a criminal be in charge of investigations. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #63
Why don't Republicans seem to care how they appear to intelligent informed voters? TheRestOfUs Feb 2012 #65
agree 1000% graham4anything Mar 2012 #126
Could these folks be anymore sexist if they tried outright? /nt jimlup Feb 2012 #66
It seems they're trying outright now lunatica Feb 2012 #114
I'm sick of the GOP clown car Congress. nt valerief Feb 2012 #70
Sausagefest 2012 Blue Owl Feb 2012 #74
K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2012 #76
The American Taliban n/t ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #78
FORBID Women from Talking?! SOB slobs Justice wanted Feb 2012 #80
A Confederacy of Fucknuts! derby378 Feb 2012 #81
K&R Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #84
Republicans are pigs 47of74 Feb 2012 #85
Pigs are much nicer Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2012 #119
Yeah, I guess you're right there. 47of74 Feb 2012 #120
Birth Control Native-HBI Feb 2012 #86
Kinda says it all about republican respect for women. MarianJack Feb 2012 #90
Spam deleted by NRaleighLiberal (MIR Team) sdfghytyt Feb 2012 #91
There is the Ad right there to run against any conservative. glinda Feb 2012 #92
"Issa’s chairmanship an “autocratic regime.” " BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #93
Proud Feminist here forever. lunatica Feb 2012 #115
Title is misleading and may cause overreaction. Islandlife Feb 2012 #94
I see a bunch of men Aerows Feb 2012 #109
Tell me this doesn't very clearly demonstrate the government ESTABLISHING religious teachings. patrice Feb 2012 #98
I wish that all of their wives would go Lysistrata on them. Crunchy Frog Feb 2012 #100
These guys are too petty to run a middle school car wash, let alone, the House. nt EFerrari Feb 2012 #101
why the fuck is this NOT front page news? Tiggeroshii Feb 2012 #103
FWIW, it's viral on Twitter & Facebook rucky Feb 2012 #104
K&R PhoenixAbove Feb 2012 #106
K&R suffragette Feb 2012 #110
K&R Stellar Feb 2012 #112
This is why we need an Equal Rights Amendment re: gender, Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #116
I guess women can't even speak on freedom of religion and conscience. Darth_Kitten Feb 2012 #125
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