Only GOP woman at impeachment hearing gets outsized role
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) - It didn´t take long at Friday´s impeachment hearing before Rep. Elise Stefanik, the House Intelligence Committee´s only Republican woman, was gaveled down by the panel´s Democratic chairman. Republicans kept the 35-year-old Harvard graduate from upstate New York in the spotlight all day. Among other things, they gave her a prominent slot to question the day´s witness, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, even though Stefanik ranks only seventh among the committee´s nine Republicans. `We know clearly you`re going to interrupt us throughout this hearing,` Stefanik complained within minutes of Friday´s opening gavel. Though she was breaking committee rules with...