House Committee to Consider Removing Marjorie Taylor Greene From Positions, Amid Outcry
On 2/1/21 at 4:41 PM EST
The House Rules Committee announced on Monday that it would take up measures to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments.
If passed by the House, Resolution 72 would effectively remove Greene from her seats on both the House Education & Labor Committee and the House Budget Committee. The Rules Committee is scheduled to meet about Greene on Wednesday.
The resolution to remove Greene, authored by Representative Deborah Wasserman Schultz, alleges that her recent conduct violates clause 1 of rule 23, which states that, A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.
Black Lives Matter, a movement which became a rallying cry after the killing by US police of an unarmed black man, has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize.
All but one member of the Maryland congressional delegation have signed a letter requesting President Joe Biden posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, to the five people killed in the Capital Gazette shooting.
There are, at this point, two major hurdles in advancing S.51 through the Senate. First, the bill is assigned to the Senate s Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. Because of the 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans, the DC Statehood bill would need every Democrat to vote yes to advance the bill out of committee.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to announce committee assignments, but there s no guarantee every Democrat on the committee would support advancing the bill.
Secondly, the legislative filibuster requires that 60 votes be necessary to close debate on an issue and advance to a vote. Only if the filibuster is scrapped or if 10 Republicans voted to close debate, could D.C. statehood get a vote on the floor of the Senate; both possibilities seem very unlikely at this point.