What started as a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on transportation nominees turned into a verbal confrontation between Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), with the former accusing the latter of spying on her and her staff.
While questioning Ryan McCormack, President Trump’s nominee for under secretary of transportation for policy, Moreno said he obtained the vehicle identification numbers (VIN), which are typically visible through the front windshield, of his Democratic colleagues’ cars.
Those vehicles, he said, do not have additional driver assistance technologies, a fact that he says undercuts Democrats’ push to mandate such technologies for cars.
Rosen retorted later in the hearing, saying that she does not have a car in Washington, D.C. In fact, the car that her staff drives her to work in is theirs.
Calling Moreno’s move an “overreach” and an invasion of her and her staff’s privacy, Rosen asked for Moreno to submit the VINs he obtained and what he plans to do with them.
