Today's debate is scheduled to start at noon Eastern. C-SPAN's description-in-advance is "The House Rules Committee Debates a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his decision not to turn over audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden."

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  1. didn’t they turn over transcripts? so tired of the constant BS. it’d be cool if our government focussed on governing instead of the constant circus

  2. It’s a shame the only thing Republicans know is performative governing. They should get a grammy or something

  3. So is this yet another chance for MTG and her crew to act a fool and have another meltdown over how their convicted felon demigod was treated?

  4. For what? Doing his jobc & prosecuting their orange god for actualncrimes he committed… Republicans are despicable.

  6. Republicans are actively weaponizing contempt and impeachment processes in retaliation for their legitimate use during the Trump admin. Not shocking.

  8. Reminder: The transcripts are available. There is no “legislative purpose” to obtaining audio other than shameless political posturing and manipulating clips for Fox News.

    This is a desperate attempt to distract from Trump’s legal woes and their monumental failure of an impeachment inquiry.

  9. Christ, the democrats should be doing this, and for actual, legitimate reasons this time.

  10. This man, what a ride. Goes from being the first choice for a SCJ to having the R led disaster of a house go after him every opportunity.

    How is he not incredibly angry yet?

  11. While I may have difficulty recalling anything in these past four years that the republicans have done towards their platform or even to make said platform known to the layman, I will say they are doing a bang up job picking petty battles to fight when there is a country to be ran.

  12. No cspan feed as far as I can tell. Anyone else having issues?

  13. What’s Garland gonna do, arrest himself for Republicans? 

  15. Am I alone in feeling that contempt is the correct thing to feel for the current congress?

  16. So just another day of the House being completely useless to the American people.

  17. All of this started after Biden exerted executive privilege.

    They intentionally waited to go after him until he wasn’t allowed to do what they wanted.

    This might be the stupidest contempt hearing they’ve done, and that’s saying something.

  18. It screams we did not pass any significant legislation and we need red meat to throw at our base before the election. Shame they can’t just do their jobs. 

  21. Another witch hunt, how ironic. This will go as well as the Mayorkas’ Impeachment.

  22. The election is coming up quick impeach somebody or something

  23. Where are people watching? I just went through all 3 C-Span channels and all I saw were 2025 Defense Policy, Nuclear Initiatives, and General House Speeches. I can’t find the committee debate anywhere.

  24. Another massive waste of time engineered by the GOP. These people don’t care about legislating.

  25. Another bullshit hearing by the GOP to waste taxpayer money because they don’t want to actually pass any legislation that might help working class people; instead they want to gaslight the country into thinking they’re actually doing something important.

  26. Somehow I bet Gym is involved without the slightest hint of irony

  28. >”The House Rules Committee Debates a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his decision not to turn over audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden.”

    Isn’t this almost definitionally an example of Executive Privilege? I would imagine that Biden could have even claimed it over the transcript but opted not to.

  29. Just so everyone’s clear, President Biden asserted executive privilege over the audio recording because he knows that the right will just use it to cut up into snippets and use in right-wing attack ads and fox news stories.

    Fun news stories like “you can hear at the 2:43 mark where criminal Joe Biden coughs, let’s hear from our Fox News medical expert who’s here to tell us how this is a symptom of lung cancer caused by the overdose of adrenochrome from drinking the blood of white Christian babies.”

  30. But who is this even for? No one I talk to this week will even know this hearing took place. If i ask anyone I know who Merrick Garland is, no one would know…
    It’s like they’re clowns performing in an empty circus tent with no audience.

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