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With party s future on the line, US Republicans battle over Marjorie Taylor Greene
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wears a Trump Won face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office as a newly elected member of the 117th House of Representatives in Washington, Jan 3, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Erin Scott)
04 Feb 2021 08:02AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: US Republicans in Congress came under increasing pressure on Wednesday (Feb 3) to take action against Marjorie Taylor Greene, a lawmaker who supported calls for violence against Democrats and unfounded conspiracy theories before taking office last month.
WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led House will vote Thursday to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee posts after Republican leaders signaled they were unwilling to punish the Georgia freshman for a litany of incendiary, conspiratorial and racist posts on social media prior to her arrival in Congress last month.
The Rules Committee Wednesday voted to bring the matter to the full House for a vote Thursday that will decide whether Greene can stay on her committees for the rest of her term, which expires in January 2023.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom Greene had said in one post should be assassinated, slammed House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy for his cowardly refusal to act.
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
Embattled Republican Rep. Liz Cheney easily crushed a push to strip her of her number-three House GOP leadership position over her vote last month to impeach then-President Trump.
Cheney won the support of 145 members of the House Republican Conference Wednesday night, with just 61 Trump loyalists voting to remove her from her leadership role during a secret ballot vote amid a four-hour-long, tense, closed-door meeting.
But back home in Wyoming, Cheney still faces troubles in a state Trump won by roughly 44 points over now-President Biden in last November’s presidential election.
The three-term statewide congresswoman and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney has been censured by at least a dozen county-level Republican committees across the Cowboy State, with the Wyoming Republican Party likely to vote on censuring Cheney when it meets this weekend.
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The ranking Republican member of the House Rules Committee, Tom Cole, put it this way.
“I find Congresswoman Greene’s comments deeply offensive – using vile, anti-Semitic slurs, degrading those with special needs, endorsing violence against political leaders, and further victimizing those who have suffered unimaginable trauma is absolutely repugnant and unbecoming of any member of Congress.”
The House votes on Feb. 4 to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, of committee assignments.
Committee assignments?
She shouldn’t be in
any public office.
Yet Republicans not only don’t want to discipline her – they’re supporting her.