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GOP Congressman Attacks Kirsten Gillibrand for Wanting to Keep Poison Out of School Lunches
By Tommy Christopher Jul 20th, 2019, 3:42 pm
North Dakota Republican Congressman Kelly Armstrong attacked New York Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand for wanting to keep school lunches free of a pesticide that the Obama administration wanted to ban, but which the Trump administration greenlit this week.
Trumps Environmental Protection Agency announced, this week, that it will not ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos for agricultural use, despite the fact that it is already banned for household use, and has the potential to damage brain development in children according to studies produced by the EPA.
The potential harm to children was also not enough to keep one Republican congressman from attacking Senator Gillibrand for introducing a bill aimed at keeping children from being exposed to chlorpyrifos in their school lunches.
At a recent congressional hearing on Kellyanne Conways Hatch Act violations, Rep. Armstrong took things to a bizarre place as he was questioning the Office of Special Counsels Henry Kerner about whether certain hypothetical situations would constitute such a violation.
In one of many hypotheticals he posed, Armstrong attacked Gillibrands bill, and literally said that trying to keep poison out of childrens food constitutes interfering with school lunch programs.
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https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-gop-congressman-attacks-kirsten-gillibrand-for-wanting-to-keep-poison-out-of-school-lunches/
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GOP Congressman Attacks Kirsten Gillibrand for Wanting to Keep Poison Out of School Lunches (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2019
OP
I'm glad these bastards are showing their true colors - People that choose to vote for them now
tulipsandroses
Jul 2019
#4
vlyons
(10,252 posts)1. Translation interferes with Chem company making profits
Free enterprise, doncha know
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. Not a fan of KG, but F that guy. I'm happy she is fighting for this.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)3. Makes sense.
If you kill them young, there's more stuff for yourself.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)4. I'm glad these bastards are showing their true colors - People that choose to vote for them now
Can no longer give us their feeble excuses of they are the party of fiscal responsibility and family values. They are who they have always been. The party that caters to corporations, The party of bigotry and racism. The party that does not care about the ordinary citizen. If you are still voting for them, it is because you stand for one of the afore mentioned things. I am glad that they are no longer subtle about the way they go about things.
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