The far-right Conservative House Republican Study Committee, of which accidental Congressman Cresent Hardy is a member, recently released a set of policy recommendations aimed at influencing Speaker Paul Ryan’s hollow efforts to build the House GOP’s policy agenda. In announcing their list of extreme policy positions, the RSC brags that the platform was “member-driven” – leading us to wonder, which of the RSC’s policy prescriptions did Hardy help write?
Was it including the First Amendment Defense Act which would allow employers to discriminate against LGBT people and single moms? Newspapers across the country have slammed the bill as “ridiculous,” “unnecessary” and with the “potential to do great harm.”
Or was it getting rid of Title X funding, which provides critical family planning services to low-income families through clinics like Planned Parenthood?
Or could it be eliminating the DACA & DAPA programs, which temporarily deferred the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrant children and families, a move that over 10 years is expected to grow Nevada’s economy by $2.5 billion?
“Accidental Congressman Cresent Hardy is lending his name to another hollow GOP ‘agenda’ that won’t do anything to help Nevadans,” said Barb Solish of the DCCC. “Hardy’s membership in this group means he shares its out-of-touch positions.”