“Misleading” Congress under oath…hmmm… what’s the term for that?
At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in October 2011, McCarthy denied motor vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards are “related to” fuel economy standards. In so doing, she denied plain facts she must know to be true. She did so under oath.
Maybe she could be appointed as Ambassador to the UN, with her qualifications, she’d be a lock.
The term for that in the Obama administration is “good girl!”
More seriously, there’s a long tradition of putting government officials under oath, then pretending you’re asking a question when you’re giving a speech, then pretending you take the answer seriously when you know it’s just a spouting of the administration’s line. This runs through progressive and conservative administrations alike.
It would be newsworthy if a member of Congress swore someone in, asked a straightforward question about a fact, and got a straightforward and truthful answer.