Steny Hoyer: “This is an issue of who we are as a people. Many women have spoken on this floor, but this is an issue for fathers. This…”

“This is an issue of who we are as a people. Many women have spoken on this floor, but this is an issue for fathers. This is an issue for sons. This is an issue for brothers. I have three daughters, two granddaughters, and three great granddaughters. They must not be confronted with this kind of attack, and that is what it was. Some have tried to demonize the gentlewoman from New York who does, in fact, bring the intellect, the passion, and the focus on issues surprisingly that the gentleman mentioned yesterday in his non-apology. All the men on this side of the aisle are supportive of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all of her sisters and all of her mothers as well. {time} 1115”