# Senator: ‘I’m at the wrong hearing’ Whoops **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-i-m-at-the-wrong-hearing-whoops/685382 "2014-04-04T23:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-i-m-at-the-wrong-hearing-whoops/685382/1 "2014-04-04T23:44:42Z")
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. The Senate building is a hectic and confusing place. This sounds like a screw up I’d make. 🙂 Nothing to be embarrassed about, it just shows he’s human and he showed good humor about it. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-dan-coats-im-at-the-wrong-hearing/2014/04/03/7492d5b4-bb50-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-dan-coats-im-at-the-wrong-hearing/2014/04/03/7492d5b4-bb50-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html) > [@](#): > > Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) was prepped for an appropriations hearing on the defense budget when he took his turn Wednesday afternoon, flipping papers on his lap, reading from them and commending the witness for his department’s prompt response to a letter Coats had sent about a military accounting office in his home state. > > It was all fairly innocuous except for one problem: Coats was in the wrong hearing. > > After finishing a lengthy opening to his question, a staffer slipped Coats a piece of paper. Coats read it to himself, looked up, and said, “I just got a note saying I’m at the wrong hearing.” > > “Well, that would explain why I didn’t know anything about this letter,” said David Cohen, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.