Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’
Rep. Alan Grayson, the congressman who said the Republican health care plan is for Americans to die quicker, tells Wolf Blitzer and friends what's up: "Democrats have to have guts. And now we have to have the guts to take the majority that the American people have given us and do something with it."Rep. Alan Grayson drills down to rock bed: Democrats must have the guts to take their majority "and do something with it."
Rep. Alan Grayson, the congressman who said the Republican health care plan is for Americans to die quicker, tells Wolf Blitzer and friends what’s up: “Democrats have to have guts. And now we have to have the guts to take the majority that the American people have given us and do something with it.”
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The Florida congressman, who is running for a Senate seat, talks trade deals, corporate manipulation and the failures of the Democratic Party.
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Late in May, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to an appropriations bill that would bar the Justice Department from compelling reporters to reveal the identities of and other information about their confidential sources. The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Alan Grayson (pictured).
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