The draft of a resolution condemning bigotry has angered Rep. Ilhan Omar’s fellow freshmen and their progressive supporters. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi already had said the measure would be broadened to decry anti-Muslim bias, but that didn’t quiet the ranks.
WASHINGTON — A meeting of House Democrats turned contentious Wednesday as some new members who helped deliver the House majority confronted leaders over a resolution implicitly rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota over her comments on Israel.
In the party’s weekly closed meeting, Democrats protested the way Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders tried to rush out a resolution this week responding to Omar’s latest remark about Israel. Omar last week suggested the Jewish state’s supporters are pushing lawmakers to pledge “allegiance” to a foreign country.
The draft of the resolution condemning bigotry has angered Omar’s fellow freshmen and their progressive supporters. Pelosi already had said the measure would be broadened to decry anti-Muslim bias. But that didn’t quiet the ranks, and the party’s first major dissension broke out in an uncomfortable confrontation, according to three officials familiar with the episode.
