GOP employs obscure House rules to protest Dem’s ‘Legionnaires’ broth’ comments

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State Rep. Peter Breen (R-Lombard) and State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) on the House floor Tuesday.

One day after a Democratic House member said she “would like to make” a Republican member “a broth of Legionella and pump it into the water system of [his] loved one so that they can be infected,” the House GOP on Wednesday used two obscure parliamentary rules to protest the comments.

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