It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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