{"id":1556218,"date":"2022-07-15T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556218"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:34:21","slug":"canada-is-the-freest-country-in-the-world-dem-rep-starts-shouting-match-at-house-judiciary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-is-the-freest-country-in-the-world-dem-rep-starts-shouting-match-at-house-judiciary-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Canada Is The Freest Country In The World\u2019: Dem Rep Starts Shouting Match At House Judiciary Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-is-the-freest-country-in-the-world-dem-rep-starts-shouting-match-at-house-judiciary-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DCNF-Johnson-Cohen-Tiff-Featured-e1657896652318.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee triggered a shouting match when he claimed Canada was the \u201cfreest\u201d country in the world during a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Canada\u2019s the freest country in the world,\u201d Cohen said, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/24\/roe-v-wade-overturned-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abortion<\/a> as one of the reasons. \u201cThere are a few other countries, along with Canada, that are more free than America when we cut women away for having the opportunity to get their families, their bodies, to be their choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana responded to the claim later in the hearing, which a Thursday hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4985\">release<\/a> called \u201cWhat\u2019s Next: The Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World.\u201d The hearing was held after the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/24\/democrats-liberals-scotus-dobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upheld<\/a> a Mississippi law banning most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, overturning Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/24\/expand-scotus-markey-mondaire-jones-jayapal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018What Other Judicial Outrage Must We Endure?\u2019: Dems Call For Expanding SCOTUS After String Of Losses)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Cohen is wrong, Canada is not the most free country in the world, young people,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAmerica is the greatest nation in the world. We are the most free, most successful, most powerful nation because finally now we have been \u2014 we\u2019ve tried to live up to the ideals articulated in the Declaration of Independence, and finally now the Supreme Court after 50 years, nearly 50 years of an atrocity has brought us back to that truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cohen immediately tried to interject, prompting Johnson to refuse to yield, and the two representatives exchanged claims that the other was \u201cabsurd\u201d before Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, gaveled the hearing to order, telling Cohen it was Johnson\u2019s turn to speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hearing is absurd,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe Democrat majority has called us here for this hearing entitled \u2018The threat to individual freedoms in a post Roe world.\u2019 Come on! The first inalienable individual freedom is the right to be born. It\u2019s the right to life. We boldly declared that in our nation\u2019s birth certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen and Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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