As House oversight chairman, Darrel Issa will be all over
this faster than Newt Gingrich can get a private room at Tiffany's (if, of course, it
fits his narrative):
Former Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) appeared on the House floor Tuesday evening to urge his former colleagues to vote against a debt limit plan offered by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) — even as GOP leaders were aggressively pushing Members for support.
His presence in the chamber may have violated House rules that prohibit former Members from lobbying on the floor.
Istook, a former appropriator who last served in Congress in 2007, is a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He is not a registered lobbyist, but Howard Marlowe, president of the American League of Lobbyists, said that his registration status doesn’t matter and that “former Members are not supposed to lobby on the floor.”
And if Issa won't do it, the conservative media will be all over it.
Just as soon as they're done being briefed by Boehner, of course.