House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called her Republican colleagues “terrorists” Tuesday afternoon, sending the committee into recess.
The full committee was considering a funding proposal for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development when DeLauro, who had already given remarks against the bill, called many Republicans “terrorists” for proposing an amendment.
The amendment at issue, which was proposed by Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK), blocked federal funding for earmarks related to LBGT-oriented projects as well as “extraneous flags,” like the “gay pride” flag, from being flown at departments or agencies.
After Democrats sent the committee into recess twice over inflammatory words to be removed from the record and multiple speeches, the amendment finally passed into the bill.