The US House of Representatives votes Thursday on a Democratic-supported resolution to reprimand a Republican lawmaker who en
The U.S. House of Representatives votes Thursday on a Democratic-supported resolution to reprimand a Republican lawmaker who encouraged violence against her Democratic colleagues. The vote forces Republicans to take a public stand for or against Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy declined to reprimand her on Wednesday. FILE – House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California Passage of the resolution would allow lawmakers to strip the first-term legislator from the southeastern state of Georgia of two coveted committee assignments. Greene came under fire for expressing support for various baseless conspiracy theories, including the far-right QAnon theory that maintains elite Democrats are members of a sect of Satan-worshipping pedophiles and cannibals. A CNN search of Greene’s Facebook page showed she « liked » in recent years calls for executing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats. The posts were dated 2018 and 2019, before Greene launched her campaign, and have since been deleted.
