The South Carolina House ground to a halt at times on its next-to-the-last day as members fought over rules and traded thinly veiled insults. Republican Rep. Micah Caskey put on a tin foil hat Wednesday while at the well to take a swipe at the Freedom Caucus, made up of his party’s most conservative members. Freedom Caucus member Republican Rep.
South Carolina Rep. Micah Caskey, R-Springdale, waits to ask a question with a tin foil hat on his desk on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. A tin foil hat is seen on the desk of South Carolina Rep. Micah Caskey, R-Springdale, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Rep. Micah Caskey, R-Srpingdale, speaks during a budget debate on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Rep.
Freedom Caucus member Republican Rep. April Cromer called for a bill that restructured the state’s health agencies that was dozens of pages long to be read. That request would have likely run until the required 5 p.m. Thursday adjournment. But Cromer took back her request when another member invoked a rule that all members, including those who had already left without leave, had to come back.
“I want you to support this amendment because I want you to stop thinking too,” Caskey said, adding that he thought the bill would allow members to trade genie lamps for parking tickets.
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