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During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Wednesday, Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore showed that Democrats are not interested in unity — or even decency.
Committee members were debating the proposed expansion of unemployment insurance benefits in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid bill when Republican Rep. Kevin Hern shared that he had grown up in poverty.
The congressman from Oklahoma told his colleagues he was never sure “if the lights would still be on … or if there would be food on the table” when he returned from school each day.
“My childhood is marked by a dependence on government aid that incentivized my stepdad to stay home rather than work. I’ve seen what the welfare system does to families,” Hern said.
The point, he explained, was that he understood the issues the committee was dealing with on a personal level.
Moore immediately pounced on this notion.
“Listen, colleagues, the lazy stepfather welfare queen boogeyman troll must not be paraded out again to steer us from our imperative to intervene in this national crisis,” she said. “These families, these children, need our help right now.”
Emulating Maxine Waters might land her a coveted seat on the House Divide America Committee.
Committee members were debating the proposed expansion of unemployment insurance benefits in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid bill when Republican Rep. Kevin Hern shared that he had grown up in poverty.
The congressman from Oklahoma told his colleagues he was never sure “if the lights would still be on … or if there would be food on the table” when he returned from school each day.
“My childhood is marked by a dependence on government aid that incentivized my stepdad to stay home rather than work. I’ve seen what the welfare system does to families,” Hern said.
The point, he explained, was that he understood the issues the committee was dealing with on a personal level.
Moore immediately pounced on this notion.
“Listen, colleagues, the lazy stepfather welfare queen boogeyman troll must not be paraded out again to steer us from our imperative to intervene in this national crisis,” she said. “These families, these children, need our help right now.”
Emulating Maxine Waters might land her a coveted seat on the House Divide America Committee.
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