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.
