Republicans, Democrats Trade Barbs Over Border Field Hearing

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-La.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized the Democrats on the committee for boycotting a field hearing on the border in Pharr, Texas, on Wednesday.
The highest-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), announced on Tuesday that the Democratic side of the committee would not be attending what he described as a Republican effort to “score political points.” Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee also skipped a field hearing at the border in Yuma, Arizona, last month.
Higgins told NTD News that Homeland Security Committee members are already required to visit the border. “So putting a hearing together with a border trip just works very well for scheduling and for the purposes of allowing our members, the Republican members and Democrat members of the Homeland Security Committee, to have firsthand interaction on the border.”…}