Bruce Westerman Slams Dems For Proposing To Rename The Gulf Of America The ‘Gulf Of Ignorance’

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During a debate on the House floor on Thursday, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) discussed the Democrats' proposal to rename the Gulf of America the Gulf of Ignorance.

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00:00Reserve. Gentleman from California Reserves, a gentleman from Arkansas is

00:03recognized. Mr. Speaker, I left out one of the other amendments my colleagues

00:08across the aisle filed. They wanted to rename the Gulf the Gulf of Ignorance.

00:15Now I don't know where they came up with that one. I know they oppose offshore

00:19oil and gas production. I know they oppose American energy independence. I

00:26know they have a special affinity for fish that aren't in the Gulf and attack

00:34recreational fishermen in their their endeavor to go out and spend time with

00:40their family and catch fish. But I don't know what part of the Gulf that they

00:45think is so ignorant that they wanted to rename the Gulf the Gulf of Ignorance.

00:50But you can look it up. They filed that amendment. We obviously voted it down.

00:55You know they had no problem renaming the Cannon Caucus Room the Nancy Pelosi

01:00Caucus Room. It's not like this is the first thing that's ever been renamed in

01:05this Congress. But we will go ahead and have our debate and they can vent their

01:12frustration on on the Republicans and really on our country as they can

01:18continue. But I will reserve the balance at my time.

01:22General for markets are reserves. I'm from California's record.

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