{"id":49506,"date":"2025-11-05T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49506"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:02:03","slug":"rosen-accuses-moreno-of-snooping-on-staffs-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49506","title":{"rendered":"Rosen accuses Moreno of snooping on staff\u2019s cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What started as a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on transportation nominees turned into a verbal confrontation between Sens. Jacky Rosen<\/u><\/a> (D-Nev.) and Bernie Moreno<\/u><\/a> (R-Ohio), with the former accusing the latter of spying on her and her staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While questioning Ryan McCormack, President Trump\u2019s nominee for under secretary of transportation for policy, Moreno said<\/u><\/a> he obtained the vehicle identification numbers (VIN), which are typically visible through the front windshield, of his Democratic colleagues\u2019 cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those vehicles, he said, do not have additional driver assistance technologies, a fact that he says undercuts Democrats\u2019 push to mandate such technologies for cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosen retorted<\/u><\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling Moreno\u2019s move an \u201coverreach\u201d and an invasion of her and her staff\u2019s privacy, Rosen asked for Moreno to submit the VINs he obtained and what he plans to do with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes later<\/u><\/a>, Moreno and Rosen got into it again. After the Ohio Republican implied that Rosen did not care about the safety of her staffers\u2019 car, Rosen objected and called Moreno\u2019s actions \u201ca little creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you came and asked me for my VIN, I will tell you what I have in my car,\u201d Rosen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Moreno said he obtained the VINs to \u201cexpose [Rosen\u2019s] hypocrisy,\u201d the argument further devolved into one about the record-long government shutdown<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreno noted that Rosen, like all members of Congress, receives a paycheck during the government shutdown, while her staff, air traffic controllers and other federal workers do not. Rosen replied that she is donating her paycheck, and blamed Republicans, who are \u201cin control of the White House [and] the Senate,\u201d for the funding lapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-a-Lago, to eat at a gold-plated dinner while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents, sir. You are blind to the suffering of your people,\u201d Rosen said, referencing the president\u2019s Halloween party at his South Florida club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Moreno told The Hill that the senator\u2019s remarks \u201cspeak for themselves.\u201d The Hill has also reached out to Rosen\u2019s office for further comment on the exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019s nominee for under secretary of transportation for policy, Moreno said he obtained the vehicle identification numbers (VIN), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[25588,31135,35203,35204],"class_list":["post-49506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-moreno","tag-rosen","tag-snooping","tag-staffs-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49508,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions\/49508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}