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GOP Rep. says working mothers should have stayed at home
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) opined at a campaign stop recently about how things were better in the olden days when women stayed at home taking care of the kids instead of going to work. According to the Washington Post, Bartlett broached that topic while talking with the owner of a…
Republican Congressman apologizes for linking student loans to the Holocaust
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) said this week that he’s very sorry for telling his constituents that the federal student loan program is a step down a “slippery slope” to Nazi Germany’s Holocaust. The 86-year-old congressman used the analogy on Wednesday night, speaking to a constituent who asked if he believes…
Rep. Bartlett apologizes for comparing student loans to the Holocaust
Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland apologized Thursday after video emerged of him comparing student loans to the extermination of Jews in German concentration camps. “While explaining my position on an important Constitutional issue I regrettably used an extreme example as a comparison that was ill-advised and inappropriate,” he said…
GOP lawmaker proposes tax breaks for mustaches
A mustachioed Republican congressman from Maryland is standing up for the rights of the men (and the women) who dare to have hair above their upper lip. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett has introduced the Stimulus To Allow Critical Hair Expenses Act — or STACHE Act — to give people with mustaches…
GOP congressman says families should abandon city life
In the documentary Urban Danger, 84-year-old Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, who is serving his tenth term as the representative of Maryland’s Sixth District, explains why US citizens should avoid living in cities. “There are a number of events that could create a situation in our cities where civil unrest could…
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