New chairman pulls down Issa portrait t appears new House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) really doesn’t want to sit in the shadow of his predecessor and fellow Republican, Darrell Issa (Calif.). At least, that’s what his critics are saying. One of the Utah Republican’s first acts since taking over the Oversight panel gavel: removing portraits of Issa and other past chairmen from the walls of the Oversight Committee hearing room, committee sources told The Hill. A Chaffetz aide said it’s much ado about nothing. But Issa allies see the move as a slap in the face to the last chairman, who tapped Chaffetz in 2011 as chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on National Security. Issa’s likeness, they note, had only been hanging in Rayburn 2154 for two months. Some former committee staffers are steamed, pointing out that Chaffetz’s campaign platform for chairman last year was that he was the most “anti-Issa” candidate. Only someone with a massive inferiority complex would go to the extreme and somewhat unprecedented step of having every former chairmans portrait removed — especially when the obvious intent is to avoid having Chairman Issas portrait hanging over his shoulder for the next few years,” said one former committee staffer. “Its both childish and extremely disrespectful. thehill/homenews/house/229580-one-of-chaffetzs-first-acts-as-chairman-removing-issas-portrait
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:42:06 +0000
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