Congress on Tuesday will open the first major investigation of the District’s Occupy movement with a Capitol Hill hearing focused on why the protesters have been allowed to remain in McPherson Square for the past four months.
A subcommittee of Rep. Darrell Issa‘s powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hear from District officials — including police Chief Cathy Lanier and Department of Health Director Mohammad Akhter — and the National Park Service, which decided to designate the Occupy protest a “24-hour vigil” and thus circumvented a ban on camping in the federal park.
