Michael Moore Stalking Lawmakers On Capitol Hill
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Michael Moore Stalking Lawmakers On Capitol Hill
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has spent the last two days on Capitol Hill buttonholing members of Congress and quizzing them on their banking-sector bailout votes.
“All the usual suspects have dodged us, but I’m moving a little faster these days so we were able to catch up with some of them,” said Moore in an interview with the Huffington Post.
Moore was spotted at a hearing of the Senate Financial Services Committee Tuesday morning, seated behind TARP watchdog Elizabeth Warren — baseball cap and all.
He spent the rest of the afternoon wielding his camera in the Dirksen senate office building, looking for members to go on the record.
In the middle of an interview with Rep. Elijah Cummings (R-Md.) on Tuesday, a bird above Moore relieved itself on the filmmaker’s shoulder. He brushed it off his jacket with the help of an aide. “Congressman Boehner is up in the tree,” Moore speculated of the Republican minority leader from Ohio. (He wasn’t.)
via Michael Moore Stalking Lawmakers On Capitol Hill.
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