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GOP Rep. Hal Rogers Apologizes for Telling Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty, “Kiss My Ass”

HeadlineFeb 10, 2022

On Capitol Hill, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty says Republican Congressmember Hal Rogers poked her in the back and said “Kiss my ass” after she asked him to wear a mask aboard the Capitol building’s subway system. Beatty said Wednesday she had accepted Rogers’s public apology, but said she felt she might have been treated differently if she were not a Black woman.

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