>>Democratic Members of Ways and Means Committee Not Showing Up to Work
(Washington, D.C.) -- Virginia Democrat Donald Beyer, who represents the 8th House District in Virginia, and the rest of the Democrats assigned to the Ways and Means Committee are being called out by a fellow congressman. Rebecca Hughes reports.Preview: Wrap Script:
A recent Oversight Committee meeting aimed to discuss the tracing of tax-exempt dollars to organizations that possibly fueled antisemitism. Democrat committee members did not show up, leading Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri to apologize to the witnesses who showed up twice to testify.Preview: The witnesses included Lara Burns, the head of Terrorism Research at George Washington University, Oren Segal, the Vice President of the Center on Extremism Anti-Defamation League, and Dr. Charles Asher Small, the Executive Director for the Study of Global Antisemitsm and Policy. It's unclear if the hearing will be rescheduled again.
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Virginia 8th House District Representative Democrat Donald Beyer is being called out by Republicans who serve on the Ways and Means Committee after he and other democrats didn't show up. Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri apologized to witnesses after they showed up twice to give their testimony.Preview: The committee was planning to investigate tax-except dollars to see if the organizations receiving them were supporting antisemitism. Video of the hearing is unavailable from the official government website. It's unclear if the hearing will be rescheduled again.