Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona suggested making therapy dogs a permanent fixture in House committee hearings after expressing concern about the 'mental stability' of Democrats a day earlier. Crane's comment came after a heated exchange during a hearing on wasteful government spending. The following day, Crane attended a hearing on taxpayer funding for 'gender-affirming care' for animals and saw three beagles. He jokingly suggested making therapy dogs mandatory after observing that they improved his mood.
A House lawmaker Thursday humorously suggested making therapy dogs a permanent fixture in committee hearings after expressing concern about the 'mental stability' of Democrats a day earlier. On Wednesday, during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing where Republicans debated wasteful government spending, Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., inquired about bringing therapy dogs for his Democratic colleagues amidst heated exchanges between both sides.
Crane posed the question to Committee Chair James Comer, R-Tenn. 'I'm worried about their mental stability,' Crane stated. The following day, the committee convened to discuss taxpayer funding for 'gender-affirming care' for animals. The hearing, titled 'Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty,' featured a witness from the White Coat Waste Project. In attendance were three beagles purportedly involved in experiments conducted under the watch of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). 'It was just yesterday in an Oversight hearing that I asked Chairman Comer if we could get some therapy dogs up here because of some of the meltdowns that were going on,' Crane remarked. 'I had no idea I'd walk into this hearing today and see three beautiful beagle puppies. And I have noticed that my mood has already improved. So, thank you guys for bringing them,' he added. 'I think we should make it mandatory.' At Thursday's hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., detailed how public funds were being utilized for animal experiments. 'Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed more than $10 million in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys,' Mace said. 'These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country.' Before yielding to ranking member Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, Mace asserted that wasteful government spending on animal cruelty is a 'nonpartisan issue.' 'The U.S. government spends in excess of $20 billion a year conducting experiments on animals,' Mace stated. 'We spent over $1 million to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy were more likely to overdose on a date rape drug. That's what your taxpayer dollars were being spent on.
THERAPY DOGS HOUSE HEARING REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS TAXPAYER FUNDING WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
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