Dole didn't skip banking hearing

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole didn't skip a subcommittee hearing on banking.

She wasn't invited. The reason? She doesn't sit on the subcommittee.

In an e-mail blast to supporters and journalists earlier today, Democratic Senate candidate Kay Hagan's campaign attacked Dole for not asking any questions at a Sept. 18 hearing on the AIG bailout and the bankrupty of Lehman Brothers.

"Dole failed to ask any questions or make any remarks at the hearing on September 18," the e-mail said.

The hearing, however, was of the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment. Dole sits on the overall Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and three other subcommittees.

Hagan spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan dismissed the mistake, saying that Dole has missed "over 60 other Banking committee hearings" in the Senate.

Update: Dole spokesman Daniel McLagan criticized that response.

"So Kay Hagan tells a lie, gets caught in it, and rather than apologizing, dismisses it and attacks again," he wrote Dome. "Wow, she's a class act."