quarta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2021

House rules committee holds hearing on removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees – watch live


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Pelosi issues scathing statement over McCarthy's handling of extremist member

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/feb/03/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-covid-coronavirus-republicans-marjorie-taylor-greene-live-updates

 

Nancy Pelosi has just released a scathing statement about minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s refusal to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments over her racist, anti-Semitic and fringe beliefs.

 

The Democratic speaker’s press release identifies the Republican leader’s party and state affiliation as “Q-CA,” rather than “R-CA”.

 

“After several conversations and literally running away from reporters, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA) made clear that he is refusing to take action against conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Pelosi said in the statement.

 

“As a result, the House will continue with a vote to strip Greene of her seat on the esteemed House Committee on Education & Labor and House Committee on Budget. McCarthy’s failure to lead his party effectively hands the keys over to Greene – an anti-Semite, QAnon adherent and 9/11 Truther.”

 

Pelosi noted that several Republicans, including No 2. Senate Republican John Thune, have outlined the need to denounce Greene’s racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

 

Quoting Thune, Pelosi said, “McCarthy has chosen to make House Republicans ‘the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon’ and Rep. Greene is in the driver’s seat.”


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