WASHINGTON – A group of House Democrats tabled a resolution on Monday to remove MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., From her two committee assignments as a result of her inflamed and false statements.
The resolution, sponsored by the Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch, both from Florida, and Jahana Hayes from Connecticut, would remove Greene from the House Education and Work Committee and the House Budget Committee.
Greene, a freshman congresswoman, was investigated last week for previous comments, including those suggesting that school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and Parkland, Florida were staged, as well as her claim that the 2018 California forest fires were beginning with “Jewish space lasers.”
“Reducing the future damage it can cause in Congress and denying it a seat at committee tables where fact-based policies are to be designed is an appropriate punishment and an adequate restriction of its influence,” said Wasserman Schultz during a virtual news conference.
“If Republicans do not police theirs, the House must intervene,” she continued, adding that Greene could step down, but noted that this is unlikely and the chances of expulsion are minimal because it would require a two-thirds vote in the House.
Wasserman Schultz, whose district is near Parkland, said that if Greene “cannot be tasked with making educational and budgetary policy”, she is not willing to accept the reality of mass school shootings.
Deutch represents Parkland and said during the press conference that this is a “line moment in the sand for the Republican Party” and that “the question, simply, is whether they will draw the line when a member of the Republican caucus goes far beyond rhetoric politics for what is extremely dangerous disinformation, profoundly offensive harassment and the refusal to acknowledge the truth. “
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting, spoke to lawmakers on Monday and warned that if Republicans fail to take action against Greene, the events of January 6, when a pro-Trump crowd stormed the Capitol, it would be “just the beginning.”
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Is expected to speak to Greene this week, but it is unclear whether the party will take any action against it.
