If Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, is punished for hateful and conspiratorial social media posts made before she got to Congress, a Minnesota Democrat should face sanctions for comments made while in office that are anti-Israel and borderline anti-Semitic, a group of House GOP lawmakers say.
Rep. Brian Babin offered a resolution Tuesday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee over a series of incendiary past remarks. The move by Babin, a Texas Republican, is a direct response to Democrats' threat to remove Greene from her committees if House Republican leaders fail to do so.
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With Republicans in the minority, the resolution won't pass or even be considered on the merits. But it's an effort to put House Democratic leaders on the defensive over the Greene situation. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, is moving to strip the first-term lawmaker of her committee assignments unless House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other top Republicans act.
