this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay. and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. good day. i m andra mitchell in washington. this breaking news, you wafrp e it on the house floor. a heated debate is under way to remove congresswoman omar from the foreign affairs committee over her frequent criticism of israel. she later apologized for some of her comments but stood by others. omar is a refugee and one of the first muslim americans to serve in congress. speaker mccarthy claims he has the votes to oust her after two republicans who were opposed flipped their positions in the last 24 hours. this comes after democrats voted to remove republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last year for promoting violence
its existing line of defense. there might be opportunities in a russian offensive if ukraine has the kind of artillery and armor that we are getting them right now. senator chris murphy, thank you. the speaker of the house is taking questions. his weekly news conference. let s go there. [ inaudible ] that s the clear part, how it s not tit for tat. let s put it in perspective what the democrats did and what republicans are doing. the democrats in the last congress removed republican members from all committees. they even judged one republican member not based upon what she had said as a member of congress but what she said prior to ever
floor. this is, i think, the last time we will see republicans move to kick a member of the democratic party off of committees, at least for the opening salvo of congress. 218 to 211. they had it. a test of speaker mccarthy. thank you very much, ali vitali. let s go back to the white house. talk to me about the energy there in the church and what mourners said to you. i know they want this george floyd bill. they don t have the votes in the senate where it failed. it was a personal day. it was a very sad. it was very hard to hold the hand and look in the eyes of tyre s mother. understand she had to watch her son get beat to death with fists and boots when he was just
of jewish americans, those that might be offended by her. certainly. this is a debate republicans want to have. they want to focus on her comments. they want to put hakeem jeffries in an uncomfortable position. he is having to say, we condemn this. this was wrong. it s not something you want to say as a member, especially as a new leader of the democratic party. they want to focus only on omar and not really on former president donald trump or other republicans who have said things that some have seen as anti-semitic or racist or discriminatory. it s an interesting way to go about this. omar is elevated by this. if you didn t know her name, now you do. she will continue to have a voice in congress wherever she is. a complicated cultural issue. the vote is under way. it takes a while to vote. they can take as long as 15 minutes to vote, as they tally that vote. we will keep that up there for a while.
first muslim americans to serve in congress. speaker mccarthy claims he has the votes to oust her after two republicans who were opposed flipped their positions in the last 24 hours. this comes after democrats voted to remove republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last year for promoting violence against democrats. joining me now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc washington correspondent yamiche alcindor and eugene daniels, white house correspondent. welcome all. ali, do we know if republicans have the votes? we suspect that speaker mccarthy, after everything he has been through last week and the week before, would not have brought there to the floor if he didn t know he has the votes to boot omar off the committee. reporter: you gotta imagine that that was part of the calculus here. mccarthy does have the votes. he had to lean on two members in order to get them on board.