Comments by Congresswoman Omar pale in compare to those of the Republicans McCarthy has moved into place on committees such as Marjorie Taylor Greene.
McCarthy isn't interested in building a consensus to move legislation forward, he relishes the politics and damns the country to bitterness for two years he is Speaker.
Ilhan Omar
February 11, 2019 (click here)
February 2, 2023
By Karoun Demirjian
Washington - A bitterly divided House (click here) on Thursday ousted Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments about Israel that were widely condemned as antisemitic, as Republicans moved to cater to the demands of right-wing members and mete out punishment to a Democrat their party has demonized for years.
The 218 to 211 party-line vote, with one member voting “present,” settled a partisan score that has been festering since 2021, when the House, then controlled by Democrats, stripped Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona of their committee assignments for social media posts in which they endorsed violence against Democrats....
The 218 to 211 party-line vote, with one member voting “present,” settled a partisan score that has been festering since 2021, when the House, then controlled by Democrats, stripped Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona of their committee assignments for social media posts in which they endorsed violence against Democrats....
