‘The smell of freedom’: Tucker Carlson and House Republican defend tobacco smoking inside the Capitol

Last Tuesday, Reuters congressional reporter Patricia Zengerle informed the American public that the new Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives eliminated a fifteen-year-old ban on smoking inside the Capitol. “So there’s indoor smoking on the House side of the Capitol now that the Republicans have taken control,” Zengerle tweeted. “Washington, D.C., law bans smoking in all indoor spaces, but it does not apply to the private offices of members of Congress, never has,” she explained. “So when you have a change in party control, and they move offices like they just did,…

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