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Jim McGovern ripped Republicans with a line about cults.
"What theyre trying to do now is cancel people," said Rep. Jim McGovern (Mass.), the congressman who started the contretemps.
Rep. Jim McGovern said the extremist Republican's tirade about Rep. Jamaal Bowman was "really rich."
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is among the scores of House Republicans who have criticized the $1.7 trillion package.
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"I have to say that their silence is deafening," Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said of those who texted Trump's chief of staff during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Republicans support drug testing for the poor and also for themselves.
The measure wipes out a Vermont law that made clear labels mandatory.
There are some downright weird Democratic and GOP alliances on this.
Rep. Jim McGovern said if Speaker Ryan and "his Republican friends" make it harder for families to escape poverty, McGovern would fight him.