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That's all they have. They're simply defenders of crime, abusing whatever power they have to try to prevent as much of the process of enforcing the law as they can. With the last committee, it was the 'storm the secure room, bringing in disallowed cell phones, and prevent the hearing' stunt.
It became clear within the first five minutes of the hearing that Republicans were committed to trying to gum up the works using a variety of parliamentary stall tactics. Within the first 90 minutes of the hearing, Republicans forced roll call votes of the 41 members on the committee three times -- once to try to force Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, to testify, once to postpone the hearings and a third time to force the so-called "whistleblower" to testify.
That's all they have. They're simply defenders of crime, abusing whatever power they have to try to prevent as much of the process of enforcing the law as they can. With the last committee, it was the 'storm the secure room, bringing in disallowed cell phones, and prevent the hearing' stunt.