Despite being forums to question and receive testimony from public officials and experts, House committee hearings often rank near Cher’s Twitter feed as informative sources of information about politics and government. Sometimes this is because of the prevarication of the witnesses. Almost always it relates to the grandstanding of the committee members. But rarely does a committee member’s grandstanding make it virtually impossible to hear if a witness is prevaricating.

House Appropriations Committee member Rosa DeLauro asked Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price on Wednesday if his department would continue spending money to advertise Obamacare’s open enrollment, after the Trump administration halted ads in late January ahead of an enrollment deadline. “We aren’t going to continue spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars promoting a failed government program,” an HHS spokesman said, according to CNN.