The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee plans to investigate an alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s reported mental decline at a hearing Wednesday morning.
Democrats have called the hearing a waste of time, but Republicans plan to call several witnesses at the hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution.”
Republicans plan to call John Harrison, a scholar from the University of Virginia School of Law who served during the former Reagan and Bush administrations; Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary turned radio show host; and Theodore Wold, a visiting fellow for law and technology policy at The Heritage Foundation.
Democrats declined to call any witnesses and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin called the entire hearing a waste of time.
“We have so many important topics to consider, and this is a totally political undertaking by several of my colleagues,” he said, according to a Fox New report. “It is a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s time.”
A spokesperson from Durbin’s office said the retiring senator will offer opening remarks and then leave, the Washington Examiner reported.
“He does not plan to stick around to ask questions,” a spokesperson said. “At this time, I’m not aware of anyone on the [Democrats’] side planning to attend.”
The hearing is set for 10:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Republicans in the U.S. House are investigating the same issue. U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, ordered Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former president Joe Biden’s physician, to appear for a deposition on June 27 as part of the investigation into Biden’s physical and mental fitness.
