The Hill Irresponsibly Reports False Claim That Clinton ‘Skipped’ Senate Environmental Hearing

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/01/clinton-yucca-hill/

Yesterday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the controversial proposal to establish a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. When this hearing was announced on Oct. 17, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) commended the move, stating, “I applaud Chairman Boxer for scheduling this important hearing, a step that I called for earlier this year.”

Yet today in The Hill in a piece entitled “Clinton Skips Senate Hearing She Called For,” reporter Alexander Bolton claims that Clinton failed to show up for yesterday’s hearing. Bolton writes:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) skipped an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Wednesday that she called for earlier this year.

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Bolton’s article is completely inaccurate. Clinton was at the hearing. In fact, the AP’s Erica Werner yesterday reported on Clinton’s comments: “‘Yucca Mountain is not the answer,’ Clinton told a packed hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee held at her request.”

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Wow, they just lie about stuff anymore, there is no thought put into it. Like they had a real thought among them anyway.

[MethuenProgressive]

1. The Hill has a well noted agenda.

And they proudly show it at every turn.
Expect this fib to be posted as truth on DU eight times before the sun sets.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Nothing unusual just like all the Hillary hate-bashers.