Hearings! Hearings are my favorite Senate happenings, and we had a bumper crop this week.
Senator Kerry chaired hearings this week in the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That's a lot of hearings. Two of them had to do with climate change, to be expected as he's gearing up for the Bali talks, so there's a lot of prep work. The links will take you to the full hearings, so be prepared to spend several hours.
The Senator also spoke at Boston University and did a really great interview on Midweek Politics Radio, won a bunch of meat from the Colorado guys for a veterans' group to feast on (thanks to the Red Sox), and chatted online with some small business people at BizBox. He also got a shout out from The Boss at a DC concert, as reported by The Hill via The Dem Daily.
Oh, and he took up a challenge from Texas Republican T. Boone Pickens to disprove just one of the allegations of the Swift Boat Liars that should net the Paralyzed Veterans of America a million bucks. I think it was an open challenge, by the way, so here's a good place to start in case you're interested. Or here, here, or here. Heck, might just as well go directly to the guy whose life he saved rather than wading through the rest of it.
Anyway, busy week for the Senator. He did some other stuff, too, much of it in the video. Enjoy!
