California Democrat Jimmy Gomez will propose his decision to suspend Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House of Representatives as early as next Tuesday. The resolution has already garnered more than thirty Democratic cosponsors, but a resolution to expel a member must garner two-thirds support from the House – requiring nearly 70 Republicans to participate in the effort.
It is not yet clear when the resolution will possibly vote.
A source familiar with the effort to adopt the resolution tells CBS News that some Republican offices have shown interest in joining Congressman’s resolution, but that they are concerned about the political and security climate in Washington, DC and their home districts.
CBS News also learned that Gomez’s office has received numerous online threats from Greene supporters after Gomez announced he would pass a resolution to expel her from Congress.
A Greene spokeswoman told CBS News she did not intend to resign.
“They come after me because I am a threat to their cause of socialism. They come after me because they know I represent the people, not the politicians. They come after me because I will be conservative like President Trump “always defend. They want to take me out because I represent the people. And they absolutely hate it,” Greene said in a statement.
In a statement Wednesday night announcing his plan, Gomez mentioned Green’s strengthening of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 and the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as her past support for social media posts that made calls went to violence against Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House. and other democratic politicians.
“Such an advocacy for extremism and riot not only requires her to be expelled from Congress immediately, but it also deserves strong and clear condemnation from all her Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, “Gomez said. the presence in office represents a direct threat to the elected officials and staff who serve our government, and it is with their safety in mind, as well as the safety of institutions and civil servants across our country, that I call on my colleagues of the House do to support my decision to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene immediately from this legislative body. ‘
The parents of some students who were killed during the shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, said Gomez’s call for Greene’s resignation.
“She needs to be removed from Congress today,” Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died that day, said in an interview. “Knowing that there are people like her who incites and inspires others disgusts me. The idea that she was elected is a stain on our country. But it can be corrected and it must be.”
Connecticut Democrat Jahana Hayes – representing the district where Newtown, the site of another shooting, is located – sent a letter to the Republican leadership of the House and the top Republican on the Home Education and Labor Committee, North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx, to deprive Greene of her new assignment to the committee.
“The idea that we have a sitting member of Congress who deals with conspiracy theories, calls mass school shootings false flags, traumatizes families again, harasses victims of school shootings is dangerous,” Hayes told CBS News.
One of her colleagues, Virginia Democrat Jennifer Wexton, joined her, tweet, “Our children deserve better than this repulsive behavior.”
Ryan Petty, whose daughter was also killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, cites Greene’s comments that the shooting was a “false flag” operation “incredibly hurtful to the families, those of us who lost loved ones that day. “
“The pain is very real,” he said in an interview with CBS News.
He added that it was up to him to see Greene in the Education and Labor Committee.
“I’m sitting on the Florida State Board of Education. I’m sure I’m going to be held accountable for accusations and conspiracy theories I put there. And I think she should do that too. I do not think anyone who claims tragedies like Sandy “Hook and Parkland were false flag operations and have a business that deals with education policy in this country,” he said.
Nikole Killion and Kimberly Brown reported.