The measure the House will take calls for Greene to be removed from the House’s Education and Labor Committee and the Budget Committee “in light of behavior she has shown.”
The move could set a risky precedent because Democrats are targeting a sitting member of the opposing party in Congress over views expressed before she served as an elected official – one that has the potential to one day be used against Republicans by the party. word.
Students who survived the Parkland, Florida, shooting and families of the victims have demanded Greene’s resignation after comments surfaced showing she agrees with people claiming the shooting was a “false flag” operation.
A McCarthy spokesman called such remarks by Greene “deeply disturbing” in a recent statement and McCarthy in his statement on Wednesday sought to distance Republicans from her rhetoric.
“Previous comments by and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on shootings, political violence and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the Republican Conference of the House. I condemn the comments unequivocally. I have condemned it in the past. I have condemned it. “Continue to condemn them today. This House condemned QAnon past Congress and continues to do so today,” he said.
But the California Republican accused the Democrats of divisiveness, saying that “the Democrats prefer to raise the temperature by taking the unprecedented step of advancing their biased grip on the other party’s committee mandates.”
Greene was publicly irreconcilable and defiant in the face of criticism. She addressed the controversy Wednesday night during a closed-door meeting of the House GOP conference and said according to her person in the room that her posts on social media do not reflect who she is.
She announced on Saturday that she had spoken to former President Donald Trump and said that she was’ so grateful for (Trump)’s support ‘, adding:’ More importantly, the people in this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First. ‘
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland, has taken the first step in depriving Greene of her roles on the two committees, after speaking to McCarthy on Wednesday.
“I spoke to leader McCarthy this morning and it is clear that there is no alternative to holding a floor vote on the resolution to remove Representative Greene from her committee,” Hoyer said in a statement, adding that “the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow. ‘
McCarthy later told reporters he had offered to have Greene move to the Small Business Committee.
“Marjorie is also a small business owner. Move her to Small Business. I made the offer to Democrats and they chose to do something that Congress has never done before,” he said.
Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who sponsors the privileged resolution that Greene be removed, outlined in a call to reporters on Monday how the House could strip Greene of her committee assignments.
“We can remove her from the committee, because even though our party leaders and our party process appoint us to committees, the House finally confirms those party recommendations, in essence, and because it is a house action, we can take a house action. to remove a member from the committee, ‘she said.
According to the resolution, only a simple majority should be accepted, not a two-thirds vote, which is why Wasserman Schultz told reporters on Monday that she expects it to succeed.
The congresswoman said she had talked to Republicans about the resolution, and although she did not expect any co-signatories, she did expect support.
‘I’m talking to Republicans, and although I do not have much hope that I will attract Republican citizens, I expect that if we put the resolution as a privilege solution, that it will attract Republican support, but not much. not, ‘she said.
CNN’s Manu Raju and Lauren Fox contributed to this report.