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Rules Committee advances GOP resolution denouncing 'socialism'; Democrats object to lack of definition
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The committee advanced H.Con.Res.58 denouncing socialism after heated exchanges over whether mainstream programs like Medicare could be characterized as 'socialist'; Democrats criticized the resolution for lacking a definition and for potentially condemning widely used programs.
The Rules Committee considered and advanced H.Con.Res.58, a Republican-led concurrent resolution that denounces socialism in ‘‘all its forms,’’ in a session marked by sustained interrogation over what the term means.
Representative French Hill, sponsor of the resolution’s floor testimony, argued the measure is a bipartisan denunciation of authoritarian outcomes rooted in socialist systems. Republican…
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