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While refusing anything so prosaic as an actual FBI investigation (which Anita Hill\u2019s claims received when Clarence Thomas was a nominee), Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached a tentative agreement to hear the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, via a baroque negotiation that insists on their competence to \u201cinvestigate\u201d something like this while functionally stripping themselves of the power to actually investigate it.