GOP Hearing Quickly Backfires as Dems Take Over

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Speaker 4 Democrats going on the offense during the congressional hearings, where MAGA Republicans were trying to run out the clock on the remaining days of the congressional calendar to not address the issues that actually matter to the American people.

Speaker 4 So the MAGA Republicans yesterday, for example, were holding hearings on shower heads and shower pressure.

Speaker 4 And this was their big hearing where they were basically, they were trying to like make jokes about it and go, oh, the trickle, trickle, trickle water pressure.

Speaker 4 And Democrats were like, one, why are you holding a hearing about this when Americans are suffering?

Speaker 4 But two, if you want to go there, we're going to take over these hearings and we're going to bring it back to a core message of affordability right now.

Speaker 4 So let me show you what went down as Democrats essentially took over these congressional hearings. Before getting into it, I just want to remind you, please subscribe to this YouTube channel.

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Speaker 4 So let me show you what went down at these congressional hearings. MAGA Republican Congressmember Fry talking about shower heads and he's saying, let it flow, let the water flow.
I kid you not.

Speaker 4 This is what the MAGA Republicans were doing. But then let me show you what the Democrats do next.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 At the subcommittee level, I think some of my colleagues on the other side were a little bit bothered by some of the honey jokes that we had

Speaker 9 in my remarks, so I made sure to add more.

Speaker 9 There's nothing quite like a shower act in December. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

Speaker 9 Some of our colleagues may want to freeze debate on this bill, but today we're actually going to talk about common sense.

Speaker 4 One more clip right here of Congressmember Fry, where he goes, your hair and your shampoo shouldn't require a four-year evacuation plan. This is what we need to be focused on.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 Your hair and your shampoo shouldn't require a four-year evacuation plan. I urge my colleagues to support this straightforward bill.
And with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.

Speaker 12 Thank you. We appreciate

Speaker 11 we applaud you showering us with your wisdom. We appreciate it very much.

Speaker 4 You know, when I'm watching that, I'm thinking, like, are you doing a Billy Madison routine? Oh, shampoo is better. No, I like conditioner.

Speaker 4 What is the, what are these MAGA Republicans even talking about right now? There are are so many pressing issues. Americans' health care getting ripped away from them.

Speaker 4 The Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring. People living paycheck to paycheck being psychologically tortured in an economy where nothing is affordable.
Housing is impossible to access.

Speaker 4 I can go on and on and on, but this is what MAGA Republicans are doing. So let me show you what the Democrats do.
So then AOC has her turn next to speak. And here's what she says.

Speaker 4 She goes, you want to talk about water pressure? Let's talk about about it here. Play this clip.

Speaker 13 As a person who has installed their own shower heads, who has, you know,

Speaker 13 encountered this, um,

Speaker 13 if you are having a dribbly

Speaker 13 shower,

Speaker 13 is this not a water pressure issue

Speaker 13 in your home? I mean, generally, like mechanically, I'm

Speaker 13 trying to engage this in good faith, generally, like genuinely.

Speaker 13 And secondly,

Speaker 13 it seems as though though we're blaming the showerhead on a water pressure issue. And in doing so, we are deregulating a piece of hardware that actually drives people's water bills up.

Speaker 13 And if we want to talk about affordability and if we want to be in touch with working people's lives, my hope is that we've had that experience, that we know the things that we're legislating. And

Speaker 13 why would we make this affordability problem worse?

Speaker 13 I mean,

Speaker 13 I'm really trying to approach this earnestly.

Speaker 13 And if we can solve this problem by addressing a water pressure issue, there's no need to be changing regulations that increase people's water bills in the name of quote-unquote personal choice.

Speaker 13 This is how our healthcare system got deregulated too. People talking about,

Speaker 13 oh, Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by their health insurance companies.

Speaker 13 Americans should have the personal choice of having industries deregulated to the point that they are unloading costs onto everyday working people. And so, you know,

Speaker 13 I appreciate the efforts put into the limericks and such here.

Speaker 13 But really, as someone who's trying to approach this matter in good faith,

Speaker 13 I genuinely try not to approach legislation of just being reflexively anti-Republican.

Speaker 13 But as a person who does care about costs, I worry that these weakened standards are going to drive up people's water bills. I worry about the environmental impact of it.

Speaker 13 Drought is genuinely a problem.

Speaker 13 And I kind of

Speaker 11 don't,

Speaker 13 I mean, it really may be a water pressure issue, genuinely. And so

Speaker 13 I say this because I just kind of want to give credence to the concerns that are put around this, and I'm not sure that those underlying concerns have been addressed. And with that, I yield back.

Speaker 11 The gentlelady yields back. Further discussion.

Speaker 4 Okay, and then in response to that, Congressman Fry says, but the issue is weak showers have been a systemic problem that we should care about. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 And no one likes weak showerheads. Literally, nobody likes weak showerheads.
Weak showers are for sad motels and gyms built in the 1970s.

Speaker 9 If we wanted a gentle mist as our shower, we would just stand in front of a humidifier.

Speaker 11 So that's why I introduced the shower act, because no one wants to be waterboarded by a trickle at 6 a.m.

Speaker 9 in the morning.

Speaker 4 But then Democratic Congress member from New Jersey, Menendez, he's like, you want to talk about energy? You want to talk about the structural issues here?

Speaker 4 He goes, let me give my colleagues on the other side an important reminder here. Play this clip.

Speaker 12 When the administration's not here, you guys speak to the power and all the above strategy on energy production.

Speaker 12 When you have the opportunity to press them on why they're canceling offshore wind, why they're rolling back investments of renewable energy that create greater energy production, you have nothing to say.

Speaker 12 Even our colleague from Texas was critical of, quote, cutting off energy options. That's exactly what the Trump administration is doing.

Speaker 12 So where is the criticism of the Trump administration when they are taking us in the wrong direction, limiting options that states like Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina want to have.

Speaker 12 You guys are all silent then. We know that we need more energy production, but we need to press the administration to stop picking winners and losers like you suggest that they do.

Speaker 12 And an important reminder from my colleague from Texas was talking about New York and California and all these woke states.

Speaker 12 Texas must be the most woke state because 30% of their energy production comes from renewable energy. So why won't we want that across the country?

Speaker 4 It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 12 But I'm glad they're finally saying the right things.

Speaker 12 I hope they say it when the administration's here, and I hope they push back on all the harm that this administration is doing, not just when it's convenient.

Speaker 11 And with that, I yield back.

Speaker 4 And then Democratic Congressmember Menendez says, and let me ask you. How many town halls have you been to? Have you been actually speaking to your constituents?

Speaker 4 Do any of your constituents want to be talking about showerheads right now? Or were they worried about right now that their health care is going to be ripped away from them?

Speaker 4 Are they terrified that they're not going to be able to pay their rent, that they can't afford to buy a home despite working two jobs or working a hard-paying job in general? Here, play this clip.

Speaker 12 Thank you, Chairman.

Speaker 12 You know, when I'm back home, the issues that people want to talk about are the health care crisis, the trillion dollars in cuts that Republicans supported to Medicaid, the largest cut to SNAP in the program's history.

Speaker 11 People are...

Speaker 12 devastated by Trump's immigration enforcement tearing families apart, apprehending U.S. citizens, and all of the harm that this president is causing.

Speaker 12 So I would just ask, and I'm curious if the sponsor of the bill from South Carolina would be willing to answer how many in-person town halls he's hosted this year.

Speaker 12 I asked the question, and I would yield my time if he wants to answer the question.

Speaker 12 How many in-person town halls you've hosted this year?

Speaker 12 Because my point is that how responsive we are to the issues of our constituents. And what we seem to agree on is there's an affordability crisis.

Speaker 12 And I've not had one person in my district come to me in the town halls I've had, both in-person, virtually, and say showerheads are the pressing issue that they have.

Speaker 12 So that's what I'm hearing.

Speaker 12 And so I was just curious if the sponsor wanted to volunteer, and I'll yield my time, how many in-person town halls he's had, because there seems to be a disconnect from what we're hearing from our constituents, who we engage with directly, versus what you may be hearing.

Speaker 12 But if you choose not to, that's fine.

Speaker 4 He was on fire, right?

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Speaker 4 More from Democratic Congressmember Menendez here and says, it's interesting.

Speaker 4 You know, this report that you're showing us where you're now focusing on the shower heads and water pressure, you know, one of the things it says is that South Carolina was experiencing a manufacturing boom.

Speaker 4 You know how they were experiencing a manufacturing boom?

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's because of former President Biden's policies that Donald Trump and you, MAGA Republicans, have rolled back to literally kill a program that was helping a red state like South Carolina.

Speaker 4 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 12 Because there's also criticism of the last administration, but an Economic Policy Institute report from March of this year said that, quote, South Carolina is experiencing an economic boom.

Speaker 11 That's great.

Speaker 12 Fueled by massive federal investments from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Speaker 12 signed into law by President Biden, and the Chips and Science Act signed into law by President Biden.

Speaker 12 Meanwhile, Republicans, including the sponsor of the bill, voted for Trump's reconciliation bill that repealed the investments in tax credits from the very bills that are driving the economic boom in South Carolina.

Speaker 12 So maybe we could show some appreciation for a president who actually delivered for the American people instead of trying to appease a president who is consistently more worried about showerhead pressure than he is the quality of life for all Americans.

Speaker 12 And with that, I yield back.

Speaker 4 Now, while that was taking place, you had Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, meaning he's the top Democrat in the House Judiciary Committee.

Speaker 4 He gave a powerful opening remark because one of the things that MAGA Republicans were trying to do was saying, look, we need to basically do an amendment to the United States Constitution to say all budgets must be balanced.

Speaker 4 And we'll call it a balanced budget amendment. And won't that be great? It would be great, by the way.
But do we need that as an amendment? You all control all three branches of government right now.

Speaker 4 You control every aspect of government. So knowing that,

Speaker 4 y'all are running up the deficit. You have added trillions of debt.
You've increased the deficit more year over year than former President Biden.

Speaker 11 You control it.

Speaker 4 Remember under Clinton, when there was a surplus, you all are claiming you're fiscal hawks, this and that.

Speaker 4 But what the Republicans are trying to do now is say, oh, well, we supported an amendment to the Constitution, which they know they'll never be able to get the states to agree.

Speaker 4 And every, so they just want to say this is what they're doing while running up the debt and increasing our deficits. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 And thank you, Chairman Roy, and thanks to our witnesses for joining us today.

Speaker 11 Our Republican colleagues have convened this hearing to discuss a constitutional change to solve a problem that they have created legislatively, which is gigantic runaway federal budget deficits.

Speaker 11 We don't need need a constitutional amendment to legislatively balance the budget. We just need some old-fashioned fiscal discipline.

Speaker 11 In the 1990s, President Clinton worked with a Republican-controlled Congress to eliminate the deficit, and they ran huge surpluses without the aid of a contrived balanced budget constitutional amendment or even rhetoric about a balanced budget amendment.

Speaker 11 They just did it. Why can't Republicans who control the House of Representatives, the U.S.
Senate, and the White House do the exact same thing today with control of every part of the government?

Speaker 11 If they want to balance the budget, just do it.

Speaker 11 They could just take action on their own to make the hard decisions, but instead they say, no, the real problem is we need to go out and get two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate and three-quarters of the states to do it instead of just passing it by a majority in the House, in the Senate, in the White House.

Speaker 11 Obviously, they lack the political will or the fiscal discipline to do it. Powerful words.

Speaker 4 I just want you to see the scheme, right? And he's so right. He's like, Republicans, you control all the branches.
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 Then we have Congresswoman Sidney Komlager Dove, and here's what she has to say: play this clip.

Speaker 16 Republicans call themselves fiscal hawks, but the numbers tell a different story. Under President Trump's first term, the deficit jumped from $665 billion to $3 trillion, from a B to a T.

Speaker 16 And he's already added another $2 trillion this term. Republicans added $155 billion to the national debt in a single week.
The national debt is now $38.336 trillion,

Speaker 16 driven by GOP tax cuts that will cost $3.4 trillion

Speaker 16 through 2034 and nearly $5 trillion if extended. And now we spend more than $1 trillion

Speaker 4 a year

Speaker 16 just on interest.

Speaker 16 So that is the real fiscal landscape that we are dealing with.

Speaker 4 And then you have Democratic Congresswoman Ballant. Here's what she has to say.
Play this clip.

Speaker 14 What worries me so seriously about this conversation is that this whole concept of a balanced budget amendment requires us to actually

Speaker 14 support the Constitution that we have.

Speaker 14 You can't have this amendment if you don't have respect for the separation of powers, if you don't have respect for the powers of the purse, if you don't have respect for the Constitution as a whole.

Speaker 14 And under this Republican government, none of these things currently exist. My Republican colleagues have completely given up Congress's Article I powers, letting the president do whatever he wants.

Speaker 14 They have stepped back and let the executive branch run wild.

Speaker 14 We have invoked the founders a lot today, and I can tell you they would be disgusted by the majority's willingness to cede their power to this president.

Speaker 14 President Trump and Congressional Republicans have completely abandoned constitutional governance by three co-equal branches.

Speaker 14 They have allowed the president to illegally refuse to spend money as directed by Congress.

Speaker 14 They have conducted absolutely zero oversight of misconduct and open corruption across the agencies and the White House.

Speaker 14 We just spent a month out of session because the Speak would not stand up to our president and protect our Article I powers. Why do I care so much about the Article I powers?

Speaker 14 It's not because of our power. It's because we represent the people.
We represent the people who want us to pass those policies that actually benefit them. And we don't have that right now.

Speaker 14 So this whole conversation about going through this rigmarole of an idea that has a snowball's chance in hell of ever coming to fruition when we could actually spend our time here protecting our Article I powers.

Speaker 4 And then the Democratic ranking member of the House Rules Committee, Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern, he says, he shows this video of MAGA Mike Johnson whining about how hard it is to be the Speaker of the House.

Speaker 4 And watch how Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern calls him out, play this clip.

Speaker 10 I haven't had a vacation day in two years. I haven't been off in two years, literally.

Speaker 10 Even when you think like the work of the day is done and you put the phone down, I mean, this would be 1130 at night. Ring, ring, what?

Speaker 10 Another crisis. We have this joke that I'm not really a speaker of the house.
I'm really like a mental health counselor.

Speaker 17 I mean, I can't believe he said that.

Speaker 17 I mean, he's whining about the workload. I mean, give me a break.
Regular people are working harder than ever and they can't afford anything. Groceries are going up.

Speaker 17 The price of health care is going up. And he's complaining about getting a call at 11.30 at night.
I mean, come on.

Speaker 17 He's accomplished nothing. I mean, the fact of the matter is, he's a weak speaker.
He's Donald Trump's lap dog. All he cares about is making Donald Trump happy.

Speaker 4 I mean, if he were a real speaker, he'd be fighting right now to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that people don't lose their health insurance and if the job's too tough for you mike just leave now one of the things that we're learning about right now as well is that maga mike johnson is very vulnerable as the speaker of the house you have nancy mace saying that she may resign from congress um the way marjorie taylor greene did you have uh elise stefanik MAGA Republican Congresswoman Stefanik, saying that if there was a vote tomorrow, there would be no confidence on MAGA Mike Johnson and he would no longer be the speaker.

Speaker 4 And so MAGA Mike was asked about that while he was walking through the halls. Watch what MAGA Mike says here.
Play this clip.

Speaker 18 I'm not worried about my standard at all. We are brutal over this agenda.
You can talk to individual members. Look, we have a large body.

Speaker 18 There's 220 or so people in this congress and lots of different opinions. Everybody's not delighted with every decision every day, but that's Congress.
That's the way this system works.

Speaker 18 Absolutely. Yes, we're going to continue this agenda.
We have had one of the most successful, productive Congresses in the history of this institution. We'll put it up against any in history.

Speaker 18 And we did that because we were able to keep everybody together, even with the smallest margins in history. And we'll continue to do that.

Speaker 18 And not everybody's going to be 100% satisfied with every decision and everything that happens, but

Speaker 18 that's how this process works.

Speaker 4 There you have it, folks. That's what's going on in the halls of Congress.
We'll keep you posted every step step of the way. Some hearings, huh? Showerheads.

Speaker 4 That's what the MAGA Republicans, you see what, but do you see what they're doing, right? The move is to gaslight the American people.

Speaker 4 They know if they speak about affordability and real issues, they're going to get crushed. And we're going to get all of those clips.
of them saying these things and screwing over their constituents.

Speaker 4 That's why they're trying to focus on showerheads because they got nothing else to talk about.

Speaker 5 That's why.

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