'Queer Eye' cast meets with lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Source: CNN
Updated 4:54 PM ET, Thu April 4, 2019
(CNN)Can you believe? Lawmakers and Capitol Hill visitors alike simply could not when the cast of "Queer Eye," the Netflix reality makeover show, visited Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Four of the show's five co-hosts were there not to make over lawmakers, but to drum up support for the proposed Equality Act, which would bar discrimination based on gender identity, sex and sexual orientation by expanding the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On the agenda? A meet-and-greet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Selfies ensued.
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"On Capitol Hill we wear pink," the congresswoman tweeted as she led the group through the halls.
Ocasio-Cortez professed that their visit "made my work day."................................
The "Queer Eye" hosts also met with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat, and Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of California..........................................
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We have the most diverse American congress ever, I’m lifted up in seeing that a United States that values Equality & protection for all is currently fighting for that. We’re making it rain pantsuits & equality in 2020.
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for a good lighthearted laugh and the warm & fuzzy feeling that there's still good people like them in the world. A great way to end the day 
