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The House voted to remove freshman Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments.
The congresswoman from Georgia has been stripped of her House Committee on Education and Labor and House Budget Committee assignments as a consequence of her past incendiary remarks.
Congressman Andy Biggs believes that the Democrats are trying to remove their political rivals, not only Greene.
“If anyone thinks that the Democrats' unprecedented actions to remove Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee will be limited just to her, they are sadly mistaken,” Biggs wrote on Twitter. “Democrats are attempting to silence many public officials, abusing their delegated power time after time.”
Congressman Austin Scott said that the Democrats are making an effort to take further control in the House.
“Let’s be honest about what this is,” Scott spoke on the House Floor. “The majority has a 10-vote margin in this body, and this body has 20 Standing Committees. You created a proxy voting system that allows your members to stay at home while the Republican members show up to work.”
“The truth is you already have another resolution that you haven’t discussed to remove over 100 Republican members of Congress including 6 from my home state of Georgia,” he continued. “Do you really think we think you will stop with removing just one Republican? We know better. You have a math problem in passing your agenda,” Scott concluded his argument.
Eleven Republican House members joined the Democrats to vote for the removal of Greene from her committee assignments which brought the vote tally to 230-199.
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