http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/diane-black-continues-rise-with-budget-conference/
When House Republicans set up a photo-op amid the shutdown of their people ready to sit down and negotiate with the Senate, eight men with rolled-up shirtsleeves sat at a long table before the cameras.
That striking image of an all-male negotiating team won’t repeat itself anytime soon, now that one of the four House Republicans selected to serve on the bicameral, bipartisan budget conference committee is a woman.Second-term Rep. Diane Black was chosen last week to sit at the conference table alongside three senior lawmakers, a surprise pick that will catapult the Tennessee Republican into her highest-profile role yet.In an interview with CQ Roll Call, Black said Speaker John A. Boehner called her early in the day on Oct. 16 to ask if she’d be interested in the position, but she didn’t know it was a done deal until later that night.
that last sentence is a give away it is a PR stunt by republicans to show that all the other conference, committee and investigations especially those completely about women they were mysteriously absent. Beohner calling to ask her interest to a done deal really what would have happened to her had she said no?
Black couldn't say why exactly the Ohio Republican chose her to serve on the prestigious panel tasked with producing a budget by Dec. 13. She speculated that it had something to do with her proven track record in the Tennessee state House and Senate, her training as a nurse and her experience in the business community."My past performances should indicate that I am someone who is willing to sit in a meeting and listen to the other side, and that I have been in positions before where I dealt with some very serious issues of setting budgets," she said.Rep. Renee Ellmers, chairwoman of the Republican Women's Policy Committee, said Black's appointment was in part because of the fallout over the image of the original men's club of House GOP negotiators."It unfortunately played into the message that's out there from the left that Republicans do not look at women's issues as vital for America to move forward," Ellmers told CQ Roll Call.
unfortunately or by intent and proof that she can willingly sit in a meeting and listen to the other side, so did Beohner with Pres. then he was given his orders to obstruct by the T-Per's so she'a a woman not held in high regard by the party hence their war against them and why should we believe the same T-Per's won't pull her strings too, transparent elephant dung stinks too. did he find her in Romney's binders full of women?
