As Wednesday's House Oversight Committee's Michael Cohen hearing approached its conclusion, the proceedings were starting to look like a lost opportunity. For hours Republicans pressed Cohen on his motivations, having seemingly convinced themselves that he had committed a decade-long series of criminal acts so that he could get a sweet book deal after his stint in federal prison. The Democrats, meanwhile, wasted most of their time on speeches, hypotheticals and performative outrage. It was, in short, like almost every congressional hearing ever.
And then the freshman congresswomen took the floor. Katie Hill, D-Calif., asked the most detailed questions about the campaign finance fraud involving Stormy Daniels.