(Fox News) All hearing rooms look alike. At least they do for Sen. Dan Coats.
The Indiana Republican, in an awkward mix-up, showed up at the wrong hearing on Thursday when he arrived at an appropriations subcommittee meeting.
At first, it seemed like nothing was wrong. He took his seat, flipped through papers and then complimented the witness in the room for his department’s quick response to a letter he had sent earlier about a military accounting office in his home state.
Then Coats launched into a fairly lengthy question.
The problem was, Coats was talking to David Cohen, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence — wrong guy. Coats assumed he was addressing Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Mike McCord, at an entirely different hearing.
