Are letters to the committee declared by the sender, i.e. do they need to say publicly ‘yep, dibs, pm’d’ or can said members just stealth it out, so as not to appear to constituents to have wielded the knife?
At their discretion. And Brady never tells (though apparently he calls all letter sender's when the threshold is reached to see if they want to leave it in).
Are letters to the committee declared by the sender, i.e. do they need to say publicly ‘yep, dibs, pm’d’ or can said members just stealth it out, so as not to appear to constituents to have wielded the knife?