During the hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly noted that Weingarten was not a “biological mother.” Weingarten said Greene's attempt to 'dehumanize' her has resulted in a flood of “vile” emails, many of them homophobic or antisemitic.
WASHINGTON — Congressional hearings are frequently acrimonious, but they rarely descend into the kind of personal attack that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., waged against teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten atlast week on pandemic-related school closures, an issue that continues to excite strong passions.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, during a House select subcommittee hearing on April 26. Emails previously made public showed Weingarten asking for amendments in the guidance, a request the influential union leader said was not out of bounds and one of many inputs that the CDC considered.Republicans disagreed, but none with more vehemence than Greene, a hard-right congresswoman with a penchant for controversy.
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