Senate panel to consider Biden nominee accused of abusive behavior

[brooklynite]

The Hill

The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday is scheduled to consider President Biden’s nominee to serve as the Archivist of the United States despite a whistleblower complaint made public last week accusing the nominee of abusive behavior.

The nominee, Colleen Shogan, faced a withering round of questions from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) when she appeared before the panel on Feb. 28 over tweets she made from her personal Twitter account.

Now, Hawley is demanding records from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), where Shogan previously worked, after a whistleblower contacted his office to accuse her of engaging in “a pattern of abusive, retaliatory, and partisan conduct,” according to a letter Hawley sent Tuesday to CRS Director Mary Mazanec.

Hawley wrote that the “Dr. Shogan allegedly made unsolicited statements in support of Democratic candidates in the workplace” and that the whistleblower claimed that “Shogan colluded with her colleagues at CRS to undermine the whistleblower’s promotion” and to “demoralize” the employee “in an apparent effort to run her out of CRS.”

[Walleye]

1. "a pattern of abusive, retaliatory, and partisan conduct," Every accusation is a confession

[wryter2000]

2. Dems will be in charge of the committee

If this is another circus, Hawley will look like the clown he is.

[Igel]

3. Subtext

Equal Rights Amendment.