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On February 14, 2018, I hid inside my classroom for three hours attempting to keep 15 students safe while a gunman terrorized my school. By the time the SWAT team released us, it would become one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. The day in which 17 lives were taken needlessly, senselessly, and horrifically.
Nearly three years later, I can still see Building 12 (also known as the Freshman Building, where the gunman entered) from my same classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I see it every time I open the door. There are others on campus who can avoid it, walking a different way or because their classroom is in a different part of campus. I don’t have that luxury.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy meets with Marjorie Taylor Greene as Republicans threaten to remove Ilhan Omar from committees over anti-Semitism in tit-for-tat
Greene has floated conspiracy theories including QAnon and that a plane didn t hit the Pentagon on 9/11, and said racist and anti-Semitic statements
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with Greene Tuesday as Republicans considered punishing her for her outlandish conspiracy theories
Republicans have faced pressure from Democrats and members of their own party to strip Taylor Greene from her seats on committees
GOP are also seeking to have Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democratic from Minnesota, removed from her committee assignments for anti-Semitism
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
In this Sunday, January 3, 2021, file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wears a Trump Won face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office on opening day of the 117th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington. (Erin Scott/Pool Photo via AP)
US House Democrats are advancing a series of resolutions targeting Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, that range from censuring the far-right representative for advancing a host of dangerous conspiracy theories, to removing her from any assigned committee to expelling her from the House altogether.
Majorie Taylor Greene gets a standing ovation from Republicans as she AVOIDS punishment for QAnon claims: Georgia Rep. mocks Kevin McCarthy as all talk and calls Mitch McConnell Mr Big Turtle as she escapes censure for conspiracy theories
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is not taking any action against QAnon touting Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
His proposal to remove Greene from the Education and Labor Committee only was rejected by Democrat Steny Hoyer, who wants a more serious punishment
Instead, McCarthy released a statement claiming Democrats should look within their own Party to Representative Ilhan Omar s past controversial comments
Greene is a QAnon conspiracy theorist. The QAnon conspiracy theory is based on cryptic posts to online message boards from an anonymous user known as Q that have spread rampantly on social media and among fringe right-wing media. QAnon conspiracy theorists essentially believe that former President Donald Trump has been secretly working to take down the purported deep state, a supposed cabal of satanic high-ranking officials who they claim are operating pedophile rings. The FBI has labeled the conspiracy theory as a potential domestic terror threat. Greene has repeatedly expressed support for QAnon, including posting pro-QAnon messages on social media and calling Q a patriot who is worth listening to.