WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rebuked Republican leaders on Thursday for refusing to remove MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., From her committee assignments before a House vote led by Democrats to do just that.
“I remain deeply concerned about the acceptance of the leadership of Republicans in the Chamber of extreme conspiracy theorists,” Pelosi told reporters at his weekly press conference. school shootings. “
“You would think that the Republican leadership in Congress would have some sense of responsibility towards this institution,” she said, referring to the minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Not to punish Greene.
The comments come as the House prepares to vote Thursday afternoon on Greene’s removal from the House’s Budget, Education and Work committees, a proposal that the Democratic majority chose to follow after the House’s Republican leadership chose to do not act against your member.
“For some reason, they chose not to follow this path, although leader Hoyer gave leader McCarthy sufficient warning that this was a path we would follow,” Pelosi told a news conference.
Before the vote, Greene spoke on the floor of the House for about 10 minutes. She did not specifically apologize for her controversial comments, but said that they are words from the past and that “what I regret most” is believing things that were not true after discovering QAnon.
“This is where I ran for Congress,” said Greene. “I never did during my entire QAnon campaign. I never said any of the things I’m being accused of today during my campaign. I’ve never said any of those things since I was elected to Congress. Those were words from the past. And those things don’t represent me. They do not represent my district. And they don’t represent my values. “
House Republicans decided during a four-hour closed-door meeting on Wednesday night not to punish Greene after Democrats protested his nomination for the education panel.
Greene, a freshman, was criticized for expressing support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, adopting calls for violence against leading Democrats and suggesting that the school shootings in Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged.
At the closed-door meeting on Wednesday night, Greene tried to explain his previous positions and comments, according to sources present, and said he did not believe QAnon and understands that the school shooting happened, one of the sources said.
The Georgia Republican, however, has not publicly apologized.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Questioned Democrats’ search for a resolution on Thursday, asking why certain Democrats Republicans criticized are still committee members.
“Never in the history of Congress have people decided where the other parties are putting people on the committees,” he said after the meeting.
Leigh Ann Caldwell contributed.