…to his son Beau’s fatal brain cancer. Mme Speaker’s hands clenched and were tense until he finished, when she stood and applauded vigorously.
Now, this is what I think: back during the BushCheney invasion of Iraq there was a journalist who I think was from San Francisco, i.e. her home district. His name and research into exactly that issue with burn dumps were all over DU.
(Here’s where I hope some old-timer jumps in and says they remember exactly who, where, and what — but for now you have to stick with my memory.)
In any case he started tracking down soldiers who had been rotated back to the US, some San Francisco unit. They had been stationed right next to a burn dump. And they were sick, every one of them. Some of their wives likewise got sick after they returned home. One of the wives told the journalist that children born before their fathers deployed were healthy, but “there has not been a healthy baby born since they came back.”
Nancy Pelosi was remarkably tense during just that passage of Biden’s SOTU, and it was all in how she held her hands. I think she knows something related to her own district that makes it personal.
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