House floor erupts after lawmaker shouts ‘Go back to Puerto Rico’

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House floor erupts after lawmaker shouts ‘Go back to Puerto Rico’

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The House floor erupted Thursday shortly before Congress adjourned for the week when Republican Rep. Jason Smith yelled a controversial and potentially racially charged remark across the aisle as Democratic Rep. Tony Cárdenas was at the podium.

“Go back to Puerto Rico!” the Missouri shouted, punctuating a stream of Republican whooping and hollering at the Democratic majority for initially rejecting their request to redo a vote on a continuing resolution to reopen shuttered agencies through Feb. 28.

Democrats had called for a voice vote on the CR, as is typical with most votes, and Republicans were supposed to request a roll call vote to show most of their members objected to the measure. Democrats said a roll call vote was never requested, but some Republicans disputed that.

Ultimately the Democrats agreed by unanimous consent to vacate the proceedings on the CR and hold a roll call vote next Wednesday. Afterward, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer noted the Puerto Rico comment that he said was directed at Cárdenas of California.

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“I would hope that we could refrain from any implications which have any undertones of prejudice or racism or any kind of ‘ism’ that would diminish the character … of any of our fellow members,” the Maryland Democrat said.

It was unclear whether the comment was actually directed at Cárdenas or Democrats more broadly. Dozens of House and Senate Democrats were in Puerto Rico last weekend for a trip organized by Bold PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that is led by Cárdenas, some of whom stayed for a separate Latino Victory political summit.

Smith’s spokesman Joey Brown confirmed he was the member who shouted, “Go back to Puerto Rico,” but said his remark was not directed at Cárdenas.

“Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend during the government shutdown, not towards any individual member,” Brown said.





When the comment was shouted, Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and other Democrats in the chamber shot out of their seats demanding to know who said it.

Cárdenas walked over to the Republican side of the aisle and huddled with some GOP lawmakers, but none stepped forward to admit they had shouted the remark.

“It came from the other side of the chamber. ... We don’t know who it is,” Jackson Lee said, declining to speculate on who might have been responsible.

“I would hope maybe privately the individual would go to Mr. Cárdenas and appropriately apologize,” Jackson Lee said.

The C-SPAN cameras were still rolling when the commotion over the Puerto Rico comment broke out. But it would be nearly impossible to definitively identify who shouted the remark because multiple Republican members were murmuring or shouting at the time and the comment came from someone who was not at a microphone or the podium.

A source who was on the floor told Roll Call that it was Smith, the Republican Conference secretary, who made the comment.

Democrats who were present for the commotion felt the remark was racially motivated.

“We’ve been called names and been told to go back to Mexico, go back to whatever, so many times,” Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia said. “It’s just unfortunate that it would happen on the floor of the House of Representatives.”

Whether the Puerto Rico comment was racially motivated or a reference to Democrats’ trip there, “it was a aspersion on a Hispanic that he ought to go back to Puerto Rico,“ Hoyer told reporters.

Asked why he thought it was an attack on Cárdenas, he said, “Because he thinks it was directed at him because he was over there and somebody yelled at him.”

Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who had been corresponding with Hoyer on the floor about the CR vote proceedings, was not given an opportunity to respond on the floor when Hoyer asserted there were racial undertones to the Puerto Rico comment. He told Roll Call after that he’d let whoever said it speak for themselves but he doubts there were any racial motivations to the comment.

“None of our members would have made any kind of derogatory term to Mr. Cardenas,” the Louisiana Republican said.

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"Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
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PimpDaddy wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:07 pm "Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
Terrible point since it wasn't a vacation. The democrats passed a budget. What has the gop done? Thrown a temper tantrum?
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captquint wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:12 pm
PimpDaddy wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:07 pm "Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
Terrible point since it wasn't a vacation. The democrats passed a budget. What has the gop done? Thrown a temper tantrum?
Budget my ass. Continuing resolution.
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Antknot wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:15 pm
captquint wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:12 pm
PimpDaddy wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:07 pm "Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
Terrible point since it wasn't a vacation. The democrats passed a budget. What has the gop done? Thrown a temper tantrum?
Budget my ass. Continuing resolution.
They did their job, that CR would fund the gov't. Dems didn't go on vaca
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Biker wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:18 pm
captquint wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:12 pm
PimpDaddy wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:07 pm "Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
Terrible point since it wasn't a vacation. The democrats passed a budget. What has the gop done? Thrown a temper tantrum?
Dems cant pass a budget while on vacay in PR
Trip was planned for months, not a vaca. Mitch McConnell won’t reopen the government anyways so it doesn’t really matter if they are PR or on the moon.
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captquint wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:20 pm
Biker wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:18 pm
captquint wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:12 pm
PimpDaddy wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:07 pm "Congressman Smith’s comment was directed at all the Democrats who were vacationing down in Puerto Rico last weekend..."

Good point.
Terrible point since it wasn't a vacation. The democrats passed a budget. What has the gop done? Thrown a temper tantrum?
Dems cant pass a budget while on vacay in PR
Trip was planned for months, not a vaca. Mitch McConnell won’t reopen the government anyways so it doesn’t really matter if they are PR or on the moon.
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This isn't the Poto Rican issue that the media should be focusing on.
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