Rep. ''Loony'' Luna (R-FL) Has Found Time to Give RUSSIAN LEGISLATORS a Tour of the U.S. House Speaker's Office.
But she can't find the time to vote to fund TSA employees' paychecks.
Luna hosts Russian lawmakers to mixed GOP reactions, outrage from others.
Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova, a member of the party United Russia, acknowledged it was her first time to the Capitol before The Hill was discouraged from asking further questions of the group.
In attendance at the meeting earlier in the day were Luna and Reps. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas).
Asked how he personally found the lawmakers, Van Orden said, “They’re just people, I mean they’re diplomats, one guy I guarantee he used to be a KGB agent — that’s a very good, educated guess. But pleasant enough.”
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), a hawkish supporter of Ukraine, told The Hill he equates a meeting with members of the Duma “to having visitors of the Third Reich,” referring to the Nazi regime in Germany between 1933 and 1945.
“I don’t know her personally,” he said of Luna. “I just disagree that working in any way with the Putin regime, they have every intent to promote the Iranian goal of death to America, death to Israel.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5803437-luna-russian-delegation-meeting/
Luna hosts Russian lawmakers to mixed GOP reactions, outrage from others.
Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova, a member of the party United Russia, acknowledged it was her first time to the Capitol before The Hill was discouraged from asking further questions of the group.
In attendance at the meeting earlier in the day were Luna and Reps. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas).
Asked how he personally found the lawmakers, Van Orden said, “They’re just people, I mean they’re diplomats, one guy I guarantee he used to be a KGB agent — that’s a very good, educated guess. But pleasant enough.”
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), a hawkish supporter of Ukraine, told The Hill he equates a meeting with members of the Duma “to having visitors of the Third Reich,” referring to the Nazi regime in Germany between 1933 and 1945.
“I don’t know her personally,” he said of Luna. “I just disagree that working in any way with the Putin regime, they have every intent to promote the Iranian goal of death to America, death to Israel.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5803437-luna-russian-delegation-meeting/
36-40, F
