On this date one year ago, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Greg Steube, the sitting U.S. House Representative from Florida’s 17th Congressional District, who first arrived on the political scene back in the Florida state legislature in the 2010 elections, before winning office to replace former Congressman Tom Rooney in the 2018 elections. The Miami New Times made a pretty good case in 2017 as to why the hell that it might be a bad idea to allow Greg Steube to a legislator at any level, making a list of ten bills he’d submitted just as a state legislator that were outright unconstitutional, are completely moronic. That list:
But of course, the GOP hot-shotted this mouth-breather all the way into the U.S. House, where he’s continued to be terrible at his job. How about the time in 2020, before the development of Covid-19 vaccines, that Steube touted the useless treatment of hydroxychloroquine, and he referred to the Food and Drug Administration as “The Deep State”? Because fomenting mistrust in that government agency while pushing snake oil on the medical people is the exact sort of thing the country needed right then.
Speaking of his blind loyalty to Donald Trump, Greg Steube also responded to several social media platforms, particularly Twitter, banning him by submitting a bill that it would make it illegal for social media companies to enforce their own terms of use on uses who violate them, especially if those “victims” of censorship should have awful conservative views.
Then again, Steube went out the very next day and tried defending Donald Trump during his second impeachment hearings by citing the case of a KKK leader as to what counted as “incitement”. Great job, Greg. Great job.
But only a few days after that debacle, Steube submitted the sort of transphobic legislation normally only seen at the state level, hoping to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports, and that in the wording, it would submit all teenage girls to genital inspections before participating in sports. Because that doesn’t sound like a more intrusive, pedophilic, abusive environment for everyone involved, does it?
But Steube doesn’t seem to realize how bad he actually is… that might be why the ethics watchdog group CREW had to file a complaint against him when abused proxy voting rules to send people to vote for him during the Covid-19 pandemic… because he was off putzing around at the Conservative Political Action Conference, rather than actually working for the American people.
And of course, this schmuck would interrupt a very important hearing about the salient threat our nation faces from white supremacists and domestic terrorists to whine about why the Department of Homeland Security isn’t investigating Black Lives Matter or Antifa (HINT for the brain dead Congressman… they’re not domestic terror organizations). And then, there’s just a disaster of a voting record these past four years:
- January 27th, 2019: Greg Steube voted against HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attacking our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
- January 22nd, 2019: Steube votes against HR 676, which would prevent Donald Trump from doing the unthinkable and walking away from our allies in NATO to appease the Russians.
- March 7th, 2019: Steube votes against HR 183, a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism as a hateful extension of intolerance.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Steube ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- January 6th, 2021: Greg Steube votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups.
- February 25th, 2021: Steube votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Greg Steube votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Steube votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Steube votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- March 17th, 2021: Steube is one of twelve Republicans who pick a side to have rooted for in the failed coup attempt on 1/6/21 and votes against awarding Congressional gold medals to members of the Capitol Police who bravely defended members of Congress during the attack.
- May 19th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Steube is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- November 5th, 2021: Greg Steube votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Steube votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Greg Steube would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: Greg Steube is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Steube votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
- May 19th, 2022: Steube votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
- June 16th, 2022: Rep. Steube gets on Twitter to call CNN the “Communist News Network”, believing a virtual set they created was an actual set inside the Capitol that had taken up a place where Abraham Lincoln’s desk once stood in Statuary Hall.
- July 15th, 2022: Greg Steube votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcement by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
- July 13th, 2022: Steube votes against the Honoring Our PACT Act, to provide healthcare to veterans affected by toxic burn pits while serving in the War on Terror that leave them more susceptible to forms of cancer.
- July 21st, 2022: Steube is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
- September 29th, 2022: Steube is one of 49 Republicans who vote against HR 8888, the Food Security for All Veterans Act.
- December 1st, 2022: Rep. Steube is one of 90 Republicans who vote against HR 6878, meaning he is perfectly fine with pregnant women in prison being placed in solitary confinement while claiming to be “pro-life”.
- December 6th, 2022: Steube, embracing the GOP’s white nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment votes against HR 7946, which was meant to honor the promise to grant citizenship to immigrants who served in the United States Armed Forces.
- December 21st, 2022: Rep. Steube doesn’t even bother to show up for the vote for the Respect for Child Survivors Act, a bill created to aid the survivors of child abuse, which shows you how much the GOP truly care about stopping “groomers”.
- May 23rd, 2023: On the same day, Marjorie Taylor-Greene files articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, both of which were co-sponsored by Greg Steube.
We have to mention that the last news that broke on Greg Steube about a week ago was during a virtual hearing on gun safety, where, after a swath of mass shootings around the country, including 21 deaths at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas… Greg Steube started waving around his collection of handguns during that meeting, likely looking to gleefully menace and troll people who were watching, hoping, and praying that Congress might do something, anything to stop gun deaths… and showing us the specific kind of halfwits the Republican Party is sending to Washington, D.C., to feed off the pain of victims.
One Year Ago, June 8th, 2022: Greg Steube (FL)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, June 8th, 2021: Kelly Loeffler (GA)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, June 8th, 2020: Kelly Loeffler (GA)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, June 8th, 2019: Nick Miccarelli (PA)
Five Years Ago, June 8th, 2018: Dave Reichert (WA)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, June 8th, 2017: Dave Reichert (WA)… 2017 Update
Seven Years Ago, June 8th, 2016: Dave Reichert (WA)… 2016 Update
Eight Years Ago, June 8th, 2015: Dave Reichert (WA)… Original Profile