Towns Walks on Thin Caucus Ice

By Tory Newmyer and Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff

Oct. 22, 2009, 12 a.m.

Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) is facing heat from up and down the Democratic ladder after locking Republicans out of his committee room this week in an ongoing spat over a mortgage lending controversy.

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