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Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) yelled at House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) on the House floor. Bush accused the 12 Republican annual appropriation bills passed that day of being “racist.” The measures, which allocate funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs, passed in a 219-211 vote. All Democrats and two Republicans voted against the measure. While Scalise was delivering remarks about the success of the GOP agenda, Bush interrupted him by shouting, “Your bills are racist.” Chaos ensued as a result of her comment and only died down when Rep. Katheri...
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) are pushing to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, explicitly guaranteeing sex equality and subsequently protecting reproductive rights. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972; ten years later, it had only been ratified in 35 states. Three more states eventually joined, surpassing the threshold needed to officially add it to the Constitution. Some states, however, have rescinded their ratifications and have thus left the amendment suspended in controversy. The resolution was proposed in C...
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Freshman House members Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) had a heated exchange in the Capitol building on Friday after Greene refused to wear a mask in the building. Speaker of the House Nancy Peolsi has since ordered that Bush’s office be moved farther away from Greene’s. Bush tweeted about her encounter with Greene last Friday. A spokesperson for Greene has since commented that “Rep. Bush is actually the instigator and it’s on tape. We’ll be releasing the video shortly.” The posted video shows a maskless Greene walking while someone out of frame who shou...
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Progressive Cori Bush won Missouri’s first congressional district race in a landslide, becoming the state’s first black congresswoman.Bush won with 78.9% of the vote.“This is definitely a night to remember,” Bush said in her victory speech. “This has been a historic day from the beginning to the end.”Bush, a nurse, has been active in the Black Lives Matter protests and has the backing of several progressive politicians and organizations, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Justice Democrats.She first became a prominent activist following the 2014 police killing of Michael ...
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