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In January 2021, as the 117th Congress convened for the first time, right-leaning observers and politicians responded with a mixture of outrage and bemusement, claiming that a Democratic Congressman had added A-Woman to the traditional Amen at the end of a prayer to open the first session of the new House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pennsylvania, tweeted a short clip from the prayer, which was given by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, adding: Similar tweets were posted by Newt Gingrich, former Republican Congressman and presidential primary candidate; Donald Trump Jr., son of outgoing President Donald Trump and former Trump campaign surrogate; the conservative social media page Reagan Battalion; and the right-leaning online commentator Breanna Morello. Those tweets accurately described Cleaver's use of the phrase A-Woman during the prayer at the opening of the new session of Congress, and the video footage that showed the relevant section from the prayer, although obviously cut from a longer set of remarks, was not digitally altered and did fairly represent what Cleaver said. Cleaver, who is a United Methodist Church pastor, made the remarks during the opening session of the 117th Congress, on Jan. 3, 2021. The full prayer can be viewed below. In the relevant section, toward the end of the prayer, Cleaver said: Snopes asked Cleaver why he had chosen to add the non-traditional sign-off to his prayer. In a statement, Cleaver said his use of A-Woman was a light-hearted pun that had been misconstrued:
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