Just now — at the last sunset of the last day that Congressman John Lewis will lie in state here — an honest to God rainbow shines over the Capitol. #GoodTrouble
Henry Connelly
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Henry Connelly
@HenryVConnelly
- Genuinely very scary that 205 House Republicans just voted to enable states to arrest, fine or sue women for traveling to get an abortion *even where it is still legal*
- OOPS. Looks like @GOPLeader McCarthy fumbled his agenda rollout by accidentally posting the webpage of @HouseGOP’s extreme MAGA “Commitment to America” – and then scrambled to password protect the website again… ...but not before we got screenshots. THREAD
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyScreenshots that reveal @HouseGOP's "Commitment" is doubling down on an extreme MAGA agenda: 🚨Criminalize women’s health care with a nationwide abortion ban. 🚨Slash seniors’ Medicare (including repealing the lower drug prices for seniors in the IRA). 🚨Attack our democracy.
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyThe @HouseGOP is already on record on how they intend to implement their extreme plans for a federal law to criminalize abortion in all 50 states. 166 House Rs have co-sponsored a “Life Begins at Conception” bill to criminalize all abortion after the moment of *fertilization.*
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyThe extreme MAGA "Commitment" promises to repeal the lower drug prices Democrats delivered for America’s seniors on Medicare! And 158 out of 212 House Rs (including Whip Scalise & Chair Stefanik) have called for gutting Social Security & Medicare in the @RepublicanStudy Budget.
- I’ll never forget finally arriving in the undisclosed location with the Members — after hours hiding in Pelosi’s conference room listening to the mob kicking down doors, shattering glass, shrieking her name — and seeing the clutch of MAGA Members smirking in the back of the room.
- Replying to @HenryVConnelly.@HouseGOP's “Commitment” promises to help insert extreme MAGA allies to disrupt polling places to help MAGA politicians invent a basis to overturn the results of elections — and give MAGA state legislatures absolute power to change election rules at their whim.
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyThe extreme MAGA attack on our democracy is now an explicit pillar of the @HouseGOP agenda. Here, the GOP Members' toolkit for the “Commitment to America” explicitly and baselessly attacks the legitimacy of legally-cast ballots, fanning suspicion about early voting.
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyNo wonder @GOPLeader McCarthy wants @RepMTG standing front and center when he commits the House Republicans to such a devastating, extreme MAGA agenda.NEW: @RepMTG is among the House GOP lawmakers attending Kevin McCarthy’s agenda rollout in Pittsburgh on Friday — just the latest sign of how McCarthy has worked to bring his right flank into the fold as he seeks the majority & the speakership.
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyRead more about the legislation the @HouseGOP has already embraced to implement their extreme MAGA “Commitment To America” 🚨Extreme nationwide abortion bans with criminal penalties and no exceptions 🚨Gut Medicare & Social Security 🚨Attack elections speaker.gov/newsroom/92122…
- We’ll see you at the ribbon cuttings.Tonight I voted against Democrats’ “infrastructure” bill that is tied to trillions of dollars in wasteful spending. My full statement 👇👇👇
- Replying to @HenryVConnellyMore threats to repeal hugely popular prescription drug price savings from the #InflationReductionAct inside the "Commitment to America" Members' toolkit. The extreme MAGA @HouseGOP plans both increasing seniors' drug costs & slashing their Medicare benefits.
- Replying to @HenryVConnelly179 House Rs have already cosponsored or endorsed as members of @RepublicanStudy a bill to criminalize abortion nationwide after 6 weeks (no exceptions for rape or incest), punishable by 5-year sentences in federal prison for doctors. 166 House Rs would start at *fertilization*
