House votes to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from all committee assignments

The House voted Thursday to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of her committee assignments as punishment for a laundry list of extreme views and conspiracy theories she promoted before taking office.

The vote passed by a margin of 230-199, with 11 Republican members siding with the Democratic majority. No Democrats voted against the resolution.

The 11 Republicans who voted to remove Greene included: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Rep. Chris Jacobs (NY), Rep. Carlos A. Giménez (FL), Rep. John Katko (NY), Rep. Young Kim (CA), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL), Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY), Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (FL), Rep. Fred Upton (MI), Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart and Rep. Chris Smith (NJ).

It passed just a few hours after Greene took to the chamber floor to express regret for some of the fringe views she had peddled, including the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy. She did not offer an apology.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., had hoped to avoid the vote, which forced Republicans to take an on-the-record stance on the resolution aimed at condemning Greene’s conduct.

While few if any GOP members had openly defended Greene’s most controversial remarks — such as reportedly indicating support for executing top Democrats — some Republicans had argued against the process, warning that Democrats’ efforts to censure Greene would set a dangerous precedent. Other Republicans opted to attack Democrats for refusing to censure their own members who have made incendiary statements in the past.

But Democrats maintained that Greene’s conduct puts her in a category of her own, requiring her removal from the Budget Committee and the Committee on Education and Labor.

“When a person encourages talk about shooting a member in the head, they should lose the right to serve on any committee,” Rules Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said Wednesday before his committee approved the resolution to kick Greene off the committees.

“If this isn’t the bottom line, I don’t know where the hell the bottom line is,” McGovern said.

Greene before being elected had promoted a litany of other radical conspiracies and extreme statements. She reportedly expressed skepticism for the conspiracy theory that a plane did not hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. She reportedly suggested that some school shootings had been staged, and mocked a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school massacre. Media outlets also reported that Greene in 2018 had suggested that wildfires in California had perhaps been caused by laser beams.

McCarthy spoke with Greene in a closed-door meeting Tuesday night. He then proposed to Democrats that the GOP would strip Greene of her Education Committee assignment if she could remain on the Budget Committee, NBC News reported. Democrats rejected that offer.

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[frankstidham]

11 Republicans with ethecs and principles, made the right choice.

[joshuak]

"I'm too gullible and believed what was on Facebook" is not a great argument

[davidellis]

Even 11 GOP members wanted her out. She should resign, forthwith.

[olrikparlez]

Something that makes sense for a change. Thank you to all Republicans who retained their ethics and continue to reaffirm their choice of functional over dysfunctional.

[highwalker]

Using facebook as a source in the first place is really dumb and entirely her fault.

[kwamebushman]

"I was allowed to believe things that weren't true"...grow up, you don't need someone to tell you what to believe in. Grow up!

[jtjimenez]

It's all behind her.
1 hour later: goes on social media

[JaydonTobler]

Wait what?! Her defense was that she saw too many conspiracy theories on Facebook and she was stupid enough to believe them?

[bobomaigret]

"I am being judged solely on my actions and statements."

[endorwitch]

the whole world is watching that the low quality of people elected into america's congress

[keviny]

She should be put in jail instead of just removed from the committee

[MomoHitsujiOwO]

She will always be a terrible human. She does not even APOLOGIZE, only blames media.

[izzybop]

“Words of the past.”
If a democrat said that, she’d go nuts. The hypocrisy…

[ethangatenby]

Y’know she’s terrible when her own party wants her out

[Angelo_Dimarc]

YES! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

[joenelsaracho]

They should also vote to kick her out of congress NOW

[robofatcat]

She said Facebook made me do it. What a clown

[bigjohnson]

Dem to greene: Gon ahead and clock out for me sweetie 😂

[apap]

If She was advocating for someone to be murdered how come there's no criminal charges here?

[frankieg]

Lol yes sir!! Let's keep draining the swamp!! Trump is out now her too 👏👏