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On Thursday, just after the House of Representatives voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments over past statements Greene has since said she regretted, a coalition of 1,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis condemned the Democrats’ blatant double standard on anti-Semitism. While some of Greene’s statements were anti-Semitic, the rabbis faulted the House for targeting Greene while ignoring heinous anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.
“Had the House operated by a fair and neutral standard,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) said in a statement, “Rep. Greene would not be the only Member of Congress losing her committee assignments. Let there be no mistake: the American Jewish community is at greater risk today, because partisans chose to ‘virtue signal’ instead of taking real action to fight Antisemitism and hatred.”
A tale of two votes (one of them a secret)
Friday, February 5, 2021 |
Chad Groening, Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
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Two votes on Thursday involved the future roles of two GOP House members – and neither result is pleasing conservative observers.
In one case, a former Texas political leader finds it shameful that House Republicans overwhelmingly rejected a call to punish a high-ranking member of their own party for her disloyalty to President Donald Trump. By a secret ballot vote of 145-61, Republicans defeated an effort by staunch conservatives in the party to remove Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) from her number-three leadership position in the wake of her vote last month to impeach President Trump.
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Feb 5, 2021
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she feels freed after being kicked off her House committees.
The Georgia Republican called a Capitol news briefing and said she is sorry for things she has said that are wrong or offensive.
The Democratic-led House voted to punish Greene yesterday, after accusing her of promoting extremist conspiracy theories and condoning political violence.
She called committee assignments a waste of her time and said she is now free to do other things.
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Today, President Biden joined the House Democratic Caucus meeting by phone to discuss the American Rescue Plan. The President made clear that the American Rescue Plan was designed to meet the stakes of the public health and economic crisis. And the President and caucus agreed that a final package must address the crises facing working families, including housing and food insecurity and reopening schools.
President Biden said the cost of inaction and doing too little is greater than the cost of doing too much.