Democratic Congress Member Garcia
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing · 11 May 2025
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Your tweet about this bill was flagged by the app itself under their community notes. And their fact check said, sensationalist claims about furries literally behaving as animals and receiving accommodations such as litter boxes have been repeatedly debunked as hoaxes. Is that correct?
Okay. I find it concerning that these types of debunked conspiracy theories are being used by politicians at the highest levels of our government, including in this legislature, who know that they're incorrect. Are you aware that Governor Abbott said, quote, kids go to school dressed up as cats with litter boxes in their classrooms? Sure.
Are you also aware that when the governor was asked by the Dallas Morning News to name a single school where this happened, he couldn't? And PolitiFact called this a pants-on-fire false claim started by online rumors?
Do you think it's a good use of our time to write laws based on debunked internet conspiracy theories?
I want to ask you a few questions about the language of the bill. So Your bill provides includes language that prohibits students from engaging in certain types of, quote, non-human behavior, which is defined as including, quote, licking oneself or others, end quote. Is that correct?
Yeah. I am worried that there are developmentally normal behaviors, things that any child might do that could be punished under the language because it's so broad and unclear. So let's just use this example because there are actual monetary fines along with your bill. So this is not just a humorous thing. There are real consequences.
If a student eats Cheetos and then licks the cheese dust off their fingers, would that be considered licking oneself?
But you're defining non-human behavior as licking oneself or others.
So who decides whether the licking is non-human behavior? Is that the attorney general's job if your bill becomes law?
But all there needs to be is one complaint and the attorney general, the top cop in the second largest state in the union, is now tasked with investigating that behavior? I mean, I would just hope that the attorney general has better things to do than investigating licking. licking or that kind of behavior among kids.
Is this. Is infantile bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico really this House's top priority? I heard the gentle lady say it's going to solve all the problems, of course, if we name it the Gulf of America. Golly day, why didn't we think of that? The economy is shrinking for the first time since COVID-19. Costs are going up. I think Saturday Night Live just called me. They want me on.
Costs are going up. Small businesses are going under. American families are worried they won't be able to keep the lights on, keep food on the table, and keep the roof on their head. They're happy about course golf of America. That'll do it. Millions of Americans risk losing their health insurance if Republicans' Medicaid cuts go through. Yet Republicans think this juvenile legislation
is the best use of this House's time. This is the only thing we're doing today, folks. What a sick joke this is.
Solve problems, defend democracy. And yes, this bill has been called a joke more than once. In committee, I even offered an amendment to rename the entire planet Trump just to underscore the absurdity of their sycophantic bootlicking.
But now, after seeing this bill advance not only through committee, but all the way through to the House floor for a final vote, it's getting a little bit harder to laugh.
higher costs thanks to Donald Trump's reckless tariffs. And instead of pushing back the president and Congress asserting our constitutional authority as it relates to tariffs and trade in the best interest of the American people, no, Republicans have a different approach. Here's this gem from Trump. Representative Ana Paulina Luna of the great state of Florida.
She's got legislation to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore. Are we living in the times of King Nebuchadnezzar? What are we doing, folks? There are serious issues that the American people want us to confront.
Yesterday, the Secretary testified, Secretary Noem testified. Quite honestly, I found her responses confusing and inadequate. In response to my question, asking her about whether or not this administration seeks to eliminate FEMA, this was her response.
And I quote, President Trump has been very clear since the beginning that he believes that FEMA and its response in many, many circumstances has failed the American people and that FEMA as it exists today should be eliminated and empowering states to respond to disasters with federal government support. A clear answer. Does this administration seek to eliminate FEMA?
And do you support eliminating FEMA?
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