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(35,060 posts)but i can't remember what the meeting was about...
maybe i'll google ...
i don't think this was time with the lights but i found this on bradblog
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1453
or maybe it was?? (from rolling stone)
"The GOPs take that, bitch approach to governing has been taken to the greatest heights by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee is chaired by the legendary Republican monster James Sensenbrenner Jr., an ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death. Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasnt in session, hoping that no one would show, recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. But we got a pretty good turnout anyway.
"Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.
He was like a kid at the playground, the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-worst-congress-ever-161304/