The Committee on Homeland Security’s Wednesday hearing on the role of non-governmental organizations in the immigration crisis erupted into a fiery partisan clash.
Oversight Project president and Blaze News contributor Mike Howell stood up against Democratic lawmakers, who repeatedly sought to derail the hearing with unscheduled procedural votes.
‘Congressman Thompson was an emotional hypocrite.’
The pushback began with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) interrupting Howell’s opening testimony to call for a recorded vote to declare his comments irrelevant to the hearing’s topic.
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Howell’s opening remarks laid into Democrat lawmakers for fueling violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He claimed that many of the NGOs behind the Biden administration’s immigration crisis are now behind the anti-ICE movement.
The Republican majority ultimately voted to allow Howell to proceed. However, it did not
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