Coats Wanders Into Wrong Committee Hearing

By JM Rieger

Posted April 4, 2014 at 10:26am

Congressional hearing witnesses may start worrying about members not in the room, as opposed to those in the room.

During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Dan Coats wandered in and began asking the Treasury Department’s witness a series of questions, before a staffer informed him he was in the wrong place.

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