Akin and Others: One Flew Over the GOP House
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Virginia Foxx, chairwoman of the Higher Education & Workforce Training…she attended
college in 1968. Needless to say that
college education costs have far outpaced inflation since 1968.
“I went through
school. I worked my way through. It took me seven years; I never borrowed a
dime of money. ... I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that
they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt.”
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Joe Barton, energy and
commerce committee apologizing to BP executives for being criticized by the
White House. Joe Barton represents Texas
City, where in March 23, 2005 a blast at the BP refinery
near Galveston killed 15 people and injured 180 others resulting in a
$50Million fine.
"I
apologize," Barton told Hayward (BP CEO Tony Hayward). "I'm ashamed
of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it's a tragedy."
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Fred Upton, chairman of
the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2009 defending the Energy Efficiency
Standards. In 2010 Upton caved to conservative pressure and
sought to repeal the very law he sponsored.
“Our work on light bulbs
wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or
look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or
feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to
come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.”
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Jean Schmidt, member of
the House Agriculture Committee, decided to explain abortion to a class of six
year olds. The principal Dan Teller had
to send a letter to the parents
“She
defined abortion as the taking of a child's life in the mother's womb,” Teller
wrote in the letter. "She indicated that abortion involves the killing of
a child before it is born."
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Jack Kingston, member of
the House Appropriations Committee cosponsored a bill granting 14th
Amendment rights to the pre-born. The Right
to Life Act declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is
vested in each human being, and defines "human being" to encompass
all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization or cloning.
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Todd Akin, member of the House Science, Space
and Technology Committee:
“From what I understand
from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body
has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
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Dana Rohrabacher member of
the House Science, Space and Technology
Committee, and one who denies CO2 emissions lead to global warming questioning
a witness on greenhouse gases:
“Is there some thought being
given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to
eliminate that production of greenhouse gases? … Or would people be supportive
of cutting down older trees in order to plant younger trees as a means to
prevent this disaster from happening?"
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James Sensenbrenner, member of
the House Science, Space and Technology
Committee, criticizing the .S. Global Change
Research Program (USGCRP), Global Climate Change Impacts in the United
States.
“At worst, it’s junk science and it’s
part of a massive international scientific fraud. And not just fraud: There’s
increasing evidence of scientific fascism that’s going on.”
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Michele Bachmann, member of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence:
"I
will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa,
Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that
vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation
thereafter."
“The intention of
the letters was to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask
for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical
group's access to top Obama administration officials."
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Sue Myrick, member of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence:
“There is a lot
of radicalization on the Internet today; there is radicalization in the
mosques; there are people who have been indoctrinated into the same line of
thinking that are now in positions in our government,”
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