>>No idea if this has been verified or not:
>>http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing
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>>UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.
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>>“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”
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>Where did Lord Monckton get the idea the U.S. Congress owes him a bully pulpit? I have never heard of a U.S. "science advisor" expecting to speak before Parliament, or calling them cowards for not indulging him. Or her ;-)

His claims are not that he 'expected to speak' but that he was invited and then unvited. I guess you didn't read it or else you wouldn't have posted that comment.