{"id":1028474,"date":"2021-11-18T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028474"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:14:24","slug":"you-cant-just-interrupt-me-john-kennedy-explodes-on-dem-senator-in-tense-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-just-interrupt-me-john-kennedy-explodes-on-dem-senator-in-tense-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can\u2019t Just Interrupt Me!\u2019: John Kennedy Explodes On Dem Senator In Tense Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-cant-just-interrupt-me-john-kennedy-explodes-on-dem-senator-in-tense-exchange%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy sparred with Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown over alleged interruptions made during questioning at a Thursday Senate Banking Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who served as the hearing\u2019s chairman, interrupted Kennedy during his questioning of President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee for the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Saule Omarova about her alleged past involvement with a group called \u201cThe Young Communists\u201d while living in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Kennedy, I don\u2019t interrupt, I almost never interrupt these, but\u2014,\u201d Brown began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou almost always interrupt me, Senator \u2026 You\u2019re not the witness, she is,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana senator asked Omarova to show the Senate a letter of resignation from the youth communist group. He read a list of papers the nominee reportedly wrote regarding climate change and anti-capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Well That&#039;s Your Opinion!&#039;: John Kennedy, Sherrod Brown Clash During Questioning Of Saule Omarova\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3CjcL9BEnwo?start=353&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/17\/saule-omarova-shoplifting-joe-biden-tj-maxx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omarova<\/a> finished answering, Brown argued that he never interrupted Kennedy during the hearing. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/saule-omarova-john-kennedy-marxist-communisty-nominee-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know Whether To Call You Professor Or Comrade\u2019: John Kennedy Grills Biden\u2019s \u2018Marxist\u2019 Nominee)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell that\u2019s not true, Mr. Chairman, and I\u2019m entitled to ask my questions,\u201d Kennedy replied. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t interrupt you when you gave your introduction and I don\u2019t like being interrupted when I\u2019m asking my questions. It\u2019s called senatorial courtesy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you may disagree with me, that\u2019s why you have five minutes and I have five minutes,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou can\u2019t just interrupt me when I\u2019m asking my questions and you\u2019ve done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown pushed back, saying that senatorial courtesy involves avoiding \u201ccharacter assassinations,\u201d to which Kennedy said they both have the right to their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic senator cited Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who reportedly claimed at the hearing that Republican senators did not \u201cinsinuate\u201d that Omarova was a communist.<\/p>\n<p>Omarova has received widespread backlash from Republican Senators for her past writings where she had formerly praised Marxism and proposed \u201cto end banking as we know it\u201d through a \u201cdemocratization of finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While attending Moscow State University, the nominee wrote her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/14\/saule-omarova-office-of-the-comptroller-of-the-currency-marxism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thesis<\/a> on Marxism called \u201cKarl Marx\u2019s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution.\u201d Then, in her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/28\/joe-biden-nominated-marxist-regulate-banks-saule-omarova-toomey-tester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a> \u201cThe Seven Sins of Wall St: Big Banks, Their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis,\u201d she admitted that Karl Marx caused her to become \u201cdisillusioned with official Soviet ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown previously blasted Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/hearings\/09\/30\/2021\/nomination-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Pat Toomey<\/a> for pointing to Omarova\u2019s alleged communist connections in an Oct. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/brown-toomey-omarova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore today, I thought, red scare McCarthyism was rightly relegated to the dustbin of history. Any American citizen who fled communist repression\u2014whether it be FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams or OCC nominee Saule Omarova-should be lauded for their courage and conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe my colleagues \u2014from both sides of the aisle\u2014will reject such character assassination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy sparred with Democratic Ohio Sen. 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