Thread: Democrats skip out on Countrywide Financial's vote

Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program

Democrats skip out on Countrywide vote

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
10/15/09 4:43 PM EDT

Faced with a promised vote to subpoena documents on Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fled a scheduled 2 p.m. markup today.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, had promised to call for a vote at today's markup on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic government officials, including two senators. According to the Wall Street Journal, the program might have also benefitted the chairman of House Oversight, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.

Even if it had been ruled out of Order, Issa's motion would have received a vote.

The committee's Democrats simply failed to appear. Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini ... 34312.html

Hit the Road Jack: Oversight Democrats Run Away From Countrywide Bribe Program Vote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHWZvL3aRk

October 15, 2009

10-15-09: Oversight Productions

Hit the Road Jack: Hannity Covers Oversight Democrats Running Away From Countrywide Vote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oiMFcrm ... re=channel

The Great Countrywide Escape

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX4uDv_ ... re=channel

Here are the Democratic Members who "snuck out the back door":

Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Chairman, Edolphus Towns, New York

Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, Pennsylvania

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio

Rep. John F. Tierney, Massachusetts

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay, Missouri

Rep. Diane E. Watson, California

Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts

Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee

Rep. Gerry Connolly, Virginia

Rep. Mike Quigley, Illinois

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia

Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island

Rep. Danny Davis, Illinois

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland

Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas

Rep. Paul W. Hodes, New Hampshire

Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut

Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont

Rep. Bill Foster, Illinois

Rep. Jackie Speier, California

Rep. Steve Driehaus, Ohio