Underboss
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,466 No. Virginia
Just to follow up on something: I've always assumed that Geary wasn't actually part of the committee, because he excuses himself to go elsewhere and I can't imagine a member of such a high profile committee doing that. I don't think that it would be an exceptional circumstance for a senator to sit in on a committee hearing without being a member of the committee, provided that he had some interest in the subject matter.
"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."