GOP Rep. Marjorie Greene Removed from House Committees [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• With 230-199 votes, House members on Thursday ousted GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA.) from the education and labor congressional committees.
• The vote came after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy did not hand in any punishment to Greene following her previous QAnon conspiracy theory lies and distasteful comments.
• Greene said that she regretted giving some of her past comments but did not apologize for it.

After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA.) inaction to sanction GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA.) for her conspiracy theories and promotion of violence against Democrats, the House voted on Thursday to remove the neophyte legislator from her congressional committees.

With 230-199 votes, mostly by party-line voting with the addition of 11 Republican congressmen, Greene has been removed from the education and labor committees.

Before the vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD.) gave a fierce address as he criticized GOP colleagues for their inaction against Greene’s malevolent statements.

At one moment, Hoyer showed a poster containing one of Greene’s tweet that features a photo of her carrying an AR-15 alongside images of Democrat lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (MN.), and Rashida Tlaib (MI.) with a banner that read “Squad’s Worst Nightmare.”

“They’re not ‘The Squad’ They’re Ilhan. They are Alexandria. And they’re Rashida. They are people. They are our colleagues… This is an AR-15,” Hoyer said.

Hoyer cited that House Republicans ousted Rep. Steve King (R-IA.) from his committee assignments two years ago after publicly questioning why the “white supremacy” term sounds displeasing.

During her speech on the House floor, Greene said that she regretted some of her previous comments.

“During my campaign, I never said any of these things… Since I have been elected for Congress. These were words of the past and these things do not represent me, they do not represent my district, and they do not represent my values,” she said, without offering any apology.

The House vote came a day after McCarthy announced that Greene’s previous statements about “school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference.”

McCarthy did not mention any punishment, as Greene told her that she fully recognized that being a lawmaker should have “a higher standard” than being a private citizen.

“I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward,” the House minority leader said.

McCarthy also slammed Democrats for “choosing to raise the temperature” in the House on their bid to grab “the committee assignments of the other party.”

Each lawmaker is assigned to one or more committees as a policy. For a rookie member who belongs in the minority, congressional committees are one of the visible steps to exercise power in the House.

Greene, who is infamously known as a QAnon conspiracy theory believer and maker of racist comments, was elected as Georgia’s representative last November. She filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden a day after his inauguration.

Source: AOL.com