There are many ways in which the House of Representatives is feeling the effects of the absence of former Congresswoman Cori Bush. You might remember that Cori Bush was the only member of Congress in the history of this country who claimed to have performed a bona fide miracle while in office. Specifically, in a televised interview, Bush said that she once cured a woman’s cancer simply by placing her hands on the woman’s body. As she put it: “This [homeless] lady came to us, and she had these tumors, and she wanted us to like, feel them. … I laid hands on her and prayed, and then I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body. … And the lumps that were there were no longer there. She was so happy, and she went on about her day.”
It’s too bad that this homeless woman disappeared, because this kind of interaction seems like the thing that cancer researchers might have been interested in following up on. But in any event, Bush didn’t stop there, because as we all know, you need *two* miracles in order to qualify for sainthood. Normally, these miraculous events occur after the saint has died. But Bush doesn’t have time for that. Therefore, she claimed that she also once helped a toddler take her first steps in St. Louis, even though the child was gravely ill. “I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary . . . ‘Walk,’ I said gently to the three-year-old girl, ‘You will walk.’ And this girl took her first step,” Bush wrote.
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