Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing, chaired by Ted Cruz, on fraud in government programs in Minnesota. The hearing is embedded below. It featured several witnesses, not of equal quality. The most significant was my friend Rep. Kristin Robbins, whose testimony starts at 51:40.
The most remarkable thing about the hearing was the performance of Democratic senators. Having nothing whatsoever to say about the subject of the hearing–fraud in government programs in Minnesota–they simply launched random attacks against President Trump. They had a witness who tried to assist in that attempt, but didn’t get far.
My favorite part of the hearing was when Cruz held up a quote from my organization on the Democrats’ refusal to allow establishment of an Office of Inspector General who would have authority to investigate, and to initiate criminal prosecutions for fraud. That proposal, which was backed by an overwhelming majority of Minnesotans, was killed by Democrats in the Minnesota House:
This is the hearing in its entirety, the good, the bad and the weird:
