It's not just members of Congress. There is so much junk out there, no wonder people are so misinformed. She's basically saying "you decriminalized it, right?" and he says "Nope, it's still criminal" over and over.

Same thing when someone tried to bring up Chinese propaganda outlet as a news article, and the Pentagon guy was like "I don't trust Chinese communist propaganda" and he was like "oh yeah, me neither, uh, good."