Majority leader in the House, Steny Hoyer, said on Wednesday that the House of Representatives would vote on Thursday on whether to remove repatriated Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., From her committee assignments after the leader the minority Kevin McCarthy took no action against her.
“I spoke with leader McCarthy this morning and it is clear that there is no alternative to holding a plenary vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from his committee assignments,” said Hoyer, D-Md. in a tweet. “The Rules Committee will meet this afternoon and the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.”
Hoyer told reporters on Capitol Hill that McCarthy “made a decision and we will move on”. He added: “I don’t know specifically what he is going to do.”
A McCarthy spokesman said he would discuss the matter with members on Wednesday.
A group of House Democrats tabled a resolution this week to remove Greene from her two duties on the committee, after more of her inflamed and false statements before she was elected came to light. These statements included social media activities in which Greene liked posts calling for violence against prominent Democrats and a speech in which he said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Was “guilty of treason” and that treason is “a crime punishable by death. “
She also suggested that the school shootings in Parkland and Sandy Hook were staged, which led Democrats to blow up their assignment to the Education and Labor Committee.
McCarthy, R-Calif. And Greene met on Tuesday before a meeting of the Republican Party steering committee, several sources confirmed. The Steering Committee, led by McCarthy, is the group that chooses which committees Republican members participate in. The group can also withdraw assignments from the committee.
A source with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC News a Politico report that McCarthy proposed to Hoyer that Republicans would remove Greene from the Education and Labor Committee, but leave her on the Budget Committee if Democrats agreed not to put the House’s resolution to a vote. .
Leading Senate Republicans, including minority leader Mitch McConnell, spoke out against Greene and called for her to be marginalized, but she has party supporters in the House, including representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Andy Biggs of Arizona.
