Well, it's not that the chair doesn't want to have the press here. It is that the clerk informs me that it's not a power that is delegated to the committee to have press at the meeting. Now, the committee is master of its own rules, and I don't know how all members of the committee would feel about that, but it's not a power delegated to the committee.
On March 31st, 2008. See this statement in context.