'Ocasio-Cortez and the new House members showed how to do a hearing right' via PostEverything
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib listen as President Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 27. By Elie Mystal Elie Mystal is the executive editor of Above the Law and the legal editor of More Perfect. March 1 at 7:00 AM As Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee’s Michael Cohen hearing approached its conclusion, the proceedings were starting to look like a lost opportunity.
My theory is that freshman women didn’t show up to the Cohen hearing to be seen working, they showed up to work. They weren’t grandstanding for the cameras because they carry “the cameras” in their pockets. They can pull out their phones and reach more people in 30 seconds than C-SPAN can reach in a year.
For most representatives, a major hearing is their only way to be seen by Americans outside of their districts. Even their constituents might not really know what they’re up to until they see them on a television news report of a high-profile hearing. Pop quiz: When was the last time you saw Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz before the Cohen hearing? I’d forgotten she existed since 2016.
Social media might be the first thing to counter the “C-SPAN Effect” in the 40 years since that network started broadcasting live congressional hearings. If more elected leaders see social media as their way to reach constituents, instead of congressional cameras, we might see the end of fiery speeches delivered to an empty hearing room. We might see the end of questions designed to promote the congressperson instead of actually eliciting new truths.
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