Tea Party representatives show up in the Capitol for a meeting with Mike Lee and other Senate membership to discuss their concerns about the budget. Chuck Shumer refuses to allow them to conduct meeting. Tea Partiers ordered out of the Senate building.
(Daily Caller) New York Democrat Chuck Schumer was the U.S. senator who decided that a group of tea partiers couldn’t meet in a Capitol hearing room with lawmakers on Thursday, new video shows. “The chairman tells us this event has to be moved,” Lynden Armstrong, the chief clerk of the Senate Rules Committee told Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee in the video.
When Lee then asked Armstrong who the chairman is, the staffer replied: “Schumer.”
The meeting that Schumer said couldn’t happen in the Russell Senate office building had long been scheduled for tea party activists and lawmakers to discuss the results of the “Tea Party Debt Commission,” a project of the tea party-aligned FreedomWorks organization.
The meeting was moved to a private location at the nearby Hillsdale College when the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration told Lee the gathering violated the rules of the body. (read more)