House Rep. Eli Crane says therapy dogs should be mandatory at hearings after joke about Dems' mental stability

A House lawmaker Thursday jokingly suggested making therapy dogs a imperishable fixture successful committee hearings aft voicing his interest astir the "mental stability" of Democrats a time earlier. 

On Wednesday, arsenic Republicans connected the House Committee connected Oversight and Reform discussed wasteful authorities spending, Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., asked astir bringing successful therapy dogs for his Democratic colleagues amid back-and-forth sparring betwixt some sides. 

Crane asked committee Chair James Comer, R-Tenn., astir bringing successful the animals. 

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Rep. Eli Crane astatine a House Committee connected Oversight and Reform proceeding connected Thursday, wherever helium mentioned 3 beagles successful the chamber.  (House Committee connected Oversight and Reform)

"I'm disquieted astir their intelligence stability," said Crane. 

On Thursday, the committee met to sermon payer wealth backing "gender-affirming care" for animals. The hearing, "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty," featured a witnesser from the White Coat Waste Project. 

In attendance were 3 beagles that were allegedly portion of experiments conducted connected the ticker of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served arsenic the manager of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

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A beagle sitting connected the level during a House Committee connected Oversight and Reform proceeding Thursday.  (House Committee connected Oversight and Reform)

"It was conscionable yesterday successful an Oversight proceeding that I asked Chairman Comer if we could get immoderate therapy dogs up present due to the fact that of immoderate of the meltdowns that were going on," Crane said. "I had nary thought I'd locomotion into this proceeding contiguous and spot 3 beauteous beagle puppies.

"And I person noticed that my temper has already improved. So, convey you guys for bringing them," helium added. "I deliberation we should marque it mandatory."

At Thursday's hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., laid retired however nationalist funds were being utilized for carnal experiments. 

"Last year, the White Coat Waste Project exposed much than $10 cardinal successful payer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats and monkeys," Mace said. "These DEI grants funded achy and deadly transgender experiments that forced laboratory animals to acquisition invasive surgeries and hormone therapies astatine universities crossed the country."

A brace of beagles astatine a House Committee connected Oversight and Reform proceeding connected Thursday. (House Committee connected Oversight and Reform)

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Before yielding to ranking subordinate Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, Mace said wasteful authorities spending connected carnal cruelty is simply a "nonpartisan issue."

"The U.S. authorities spends successful excess of $20 cardinal a twelvemonth conducting experiments connected animals," Mace said. "We spent implicit $1 cardinal to find retired if pistillate rats receiving testosterone therapy were much apt to overdose connected a day rape drug. That's what your payer dollars were being spent on."

Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.