WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has told Stephen Colbert how happy he was that the comedian’s appearance filled the seats for a hearing on illegal farm workers. Then he tried to kick him out.
Before the Comedy Central comedian launched into his joke-filled testimony, Conyers said he couldn’t remember when a hearing drew such a crowd. California Democrat Zoe Lofgren guessed it might have been for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
But then Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, asked Colbert to leave the room, saying: “You run your show, we run the committee.”
Colbert, who recently spent a day picking vegetables on a farm in New York, said he was there at the invitation of subcommittee chairman Lofgren. Lofgren signaled that he should stay.
Conyers later withdrew his request.
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