#shorts “Dr. Shogan, I’m going to ask you again: Will you give to this committee your public posts on Twitter?” Senator Hawley asked.
“My social media is in my personal capacity,” Shogan replied again.
“Mr. Chairman, I have to tell you, this is the most extraordinary thing I have seen in my brief time in the Senate,” Hawley said, addressing Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich. “I have never seen a witness blatantly lie under oath like Dr. Shogan has just done to this committee, stonewalled this committee and just repeatedly refused to answer my questions about her own posts that are in public.”
“For these reasons, I will oppose your nomination and I strongly, strongly urge this committee to take action on this and force this witness to own up to the fact that she is misleading us right now before our eyes,” he added.
On 2/28/2023, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grilled President Joe Biden’s nominee for archivist of the United States, accusing her of lying under oath and stonewalling his line of questioning after he confronted her on past statements that he characterized as partisan. Colleen Shogan faced her second hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after every Republican on the committee voted against confirming her in September. Hawley declared his opposition to Shogan’s nomination after a back-and-forth in which he confronted Shogan with her past tweets
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/Z77PnskUcWM
Most extraordinary thing I have seen, never seen witness blatantly lie under oath strongly, strongly urge