Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) brought a House Appropriations Committee hearing to a screeching halt on Tuesday when she accused Republicans of being terrorists.
What could cause DeLauro to use such inflammatory language? Republicans added an amendment to a bill that would block funding for LGBT related items like pride flags.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Democrat Rosa DeLauro calls GOP ‘terrorists,’ forcing explosive House hearing into recessHouse Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called her Republican colleagues “terrorists” Tuesday afternoon, sending the committee into recess.The full committee was considering a funding proposal for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development when DeLauro, who had already given remarks against the bill, called many Republicans “terrorists” for proposing an amendment.”You are negotiating with terrorists,” she said, to the audible disgust of many Republicans. “Members on your side, I will continue to call out the harm you are doing in this process, both in what these bills proposed to do and in your approach on how we treat one another.”DeLauro was apparently referring to some in the House Freedom Caucus, as she said committee Republicans were “placat[ing] the whims of some who, I might add in looking historically, do not ever vote for appropriations bills.”…The amendment at issue, which was proposed by Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK), blocked federal funding for earmarks related to LBGT-oriented projects as well as “extraneous flags,” like the “gay pride” flag, from being flown at departments or agencies.
Here’s the video:
Roll Call has more details (emphasis is mine):
The earmarks that are set to be stripped include two in Pennsylvania: $1.8 million that Rep. Brendan F. Boyle requested for an expansion project at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia and $970,000 that Rep. Chrissy Houlahan requested for a transitional housing program at the LGBT Center of Greater Reading.“This cruel and unjust decision is not rooted in any legitimacy, but instead in bigotry and hatred,” Houlahan said on Twitter.The third project is $850,000 that Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley, D-Mass., requested for LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. to convert a former Boston Public School building into 74 units of affordable housing for seniors.“It is unconscionable that Republican committee members would hold senior citizen-specific housing hostage and continue their dangerous national trend of targeting the LGBTQ+ community,” Pressley said in a statement.Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., criticized the Greater Reading center for offering services to children as young as 7, and argued the Philadelphia center promotes protests held by the Young Communist League of Philadelphia. And he said the Massachusetts project would discriminate against those who are not LGBTQ or allies.Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., said taxpayers should not be paying for the resources for transgender individuals that the LGBT Center of Greater Reading offers.“The question is, should taxpayers pay for this?” he said. “The answer is no.”
Fund our LGBT pet projects and ‘Young Communist League’ allies or you’re a terrorist.
Is that what Rep. DeLauro was saying?
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