Republicans in Congress continue to hold bogus committee hearings to pretend they are governing and to take potshots at any Democrats they can. The travesty of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Tuesday, where they grilled Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and got put in their place, was lifted from the sewer by remarks from freshman Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
Crockett, who represents Texas's 30th District covering most of the city of Dallas and other parts of Dallas and Tarrant counties, was elected to the seat held by Eddie Bernice Johnson when Johnson retired. Crockett is a fiery new representative who shared she is not going to quietly allow Republicans to lie and mount hypocritical attacks on Democrats when Congressman George Santos, who was indicted on 13 criminal counts last week, remains in their midst.
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The Texas congresswoman began her speech with, "My Republican colleagues want to talk about keeping D.C. streets crime-free. They can't even keep the halls of Congress crime-free." She then acknowledged that she's going to jump into her argument quickly, noting that she only had 24 seconds remaining to relay her points.
"My freshman colleague has just been indicted on 13 counts — 13 felony counts, right? But have [Republican representatives] exhibited any courage to say, 'You know what, we will disallow this in our body. We will make sure that we expel this individual'? They have not. So what I don't want to hear is that they care about crime, because if they did they would start by cleaning up our own House and mind our own business instead of coming after D.C., so thank you so much for your time."
Here’s a clip:
She posted a longer clip of her remarks.
If you can stomach it, you can watch the entire hearing on C-Span. Bravo, Crockett!
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