Published November 1, 2023
On Wednesday night, the House took up a series of votes to censure Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene had filed a resolution last week against Tlaib for her anti-semitic comments as well as her encouraging pro-Hamas activists to storm the Cannon House building, while the resolution against Greene was from three months earlier, filed in July by freshman Rep. Becca Blint (D-VT).
Ultimately, the resolution to censure Tlaib was killed when the motion was tabled, and Blint’s resolution was withdrawn as well. If the resolution against Greene was meant as a sort of tit-for-tat, that shows you who is politicizing the censure option that is supposedly only to be used in very rare occasions.
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SOURCE: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/11/01/house-votes-on-censuring-tlaib-greene-n2630646
RELATED: Republicans help torpedo resolution to censure Tlaib over Israel criticism
Published November 1, 2023
House lawmakers voted Wednesday to torpedo a resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her harsh criticisms of Israel in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attacks last month.
The effort required 23 Republicans, joined by all Democrats, to vote in favor of a procedural motion that blocked the disciplinary resolution from reaching the floor. The final tally was 222 to 186.
The vote was something of a surprise: Tlaib, a staunch liberal who’s been harshly critical of Israel, has few fans in the GOP when it comes to Middle Eastern politics. It’s unclear why several Republicans came to her rescue during Wednesday’s vote.
The censure resolution — sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — had accused Tlaib of “leading an insurrection” for her participation in an anti-war protest last month at the Capitol, organized by Jewish groups, which featured scores of arrests.
Pro-Israel Democrats, who might have been inclined to censure Tlaib’s comments, had hammered Greene for her inaccurate characterization of a peace protest — albeit a rowdy one — and for sensationalizing Tlaib’s role in orchestrating it. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) echoed that sentiment, saying he voted to table the legislation because of the “insurrection” language.
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib has repeatedly made outrageous remarks toward Israel and the Jewish people. Her conduct is unbecoming of a member of Congress and certainly worthy of condemnation – if not censure,” he wrote on X. “However, tonight’s feckless resolution to censure Tlaib was deeply flawed and made legally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an ‘insurrection.’”
Democrats were also leery that Greene’s “insurrectionist” language had trivialized the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Trump.
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SOURCE: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4288542-house-kills-rashida-tlaib-censure-vote/
RELATED: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files censure resolution accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of inciting an insurrection
Greene’s resolution cites a number of statements Tlaib has tweeted or retweeted supporting Palestinians and criticizing the Israeli government.
Published October 27, 2023
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has filed a resolution that would censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her criticism of Israel, accusing her of recently inciting an insurrection in a House office building.
The measure would censure Tlaib for “antisemitic activity, sympathizing with terrorist organizations and leading an insurrection at the United States Capitol Complex,” Greene said Thursday morning in remarks on the House floor.
Greene has described a rally on Oct. 18 at the Capitol calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war as an insurrection. During the event, hundreds of demonstrators entered the Cannon House office building, causing U.S. Capitol Police to temporarily close access to the building. Capitol Police estimated that they arrested 300 protesters, including three people who were charged with assault on a police officer.
A Capitol Police spokesperson said that to the best of their knowledge, everyone went through security and entered the building the proper way. House and Senate office buildings are open to the public, but people must be screened by magnetometers.
The protest was loud and disruptive, but it wasn’t comparable to the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters stormed the building; more than 1,100 people were ultimately charged. Greene has defended them and former President Donald Trump as he has faced accusations he incited the attack.
The demonstration last week was organized by far-left Jewish activist groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, who are advocating for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Anti-Defamation League says that Jewish Voice for Peace is “a radical anti-Israel activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the state of Israel” and that IfNotNow’s “criticism of the Israeli government has been extreme, including calling it a ‘violent, bloodthirsty regime,’ and alleging that it is perpetrating genocide in Gaza.”
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SOURCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-files-censure-resolution-accusing-rep-rashi-rcna122329
