[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 82 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 82

           Raising a question of the privileges of the House.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2021

   Ms. Wasserman Schultz (for herself, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Hastings, Ms. 
 Clarke of New York, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Carson, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. 
 Vargas, Ms. Waters, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Malinowski, Ms. Lee of California, 
    Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. 
     Auchincloss, Ms. Meng, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Titus, Ms. 
  Velazquez, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Deutch, and Mr. Connolly) submitted the 
  following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION


 
           Raising a question of the privileges of the House.

Whereas the gentlewoman from Georgia, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, 
        serves on the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on the 
        Budget, two committees of considerable influence within the House of 
        Representatives;
Whereas clause 1 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
        provides, ``A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or of 
        the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect 
        creditably on the House.'';
Whereas Representative Greene's actions and statements do not reflect the values 
        of decency, morality, or civility, and represent a pattern of appalling 
        behavior wholly unacceptable in the House of Representatives and the 
        United States;
Whereas Representative Greene has fomented divisions within Congress and the 
        United States as a whole by advocating for and encouraging more 
        extremism, violence, and sedition, making racist statements, and 
        spreading baseless conspiracy theories;
Whereas Representative Greene has consistently advocated for extremism, 
        violence, and sedition against Members of Congress and former elected 
        officials, specifically--

    (1) supporting individuals calling for the execution of Democratic 
leaders, including former President Barack Obama, Secretary of State 
Hillary Clinton, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on social media;

    (2) liking a comment on social media that urged for a ``civil war 2.0'' 
to begin;

    (3) posting on social media a photoshopped picture of herself holding a 
rifle alongside photos of Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, captioned ``Squad's worst nightmare'';

    (4) as part of an effort to raise funds for her campaign, using an 
expletive to describe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, writing that ``we're 
going to kick that b---- out of Congress''; and

    (5) liking a comment on Facebook that said, ``a bullet to the head 
would be quicker'' to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and another 
comment that said ``through removal or death, doesn't matter, as long as 
she goes'';

Whereas Representative Greene has consistently made racist, anti-Semitic, and 
        Islamaphobic statements, including--

    (1) saying she would feel ``proud'' to see a Confederate monument if 
she were Black because it symbolizes progress made since the Civil War;

    (2) calling George Soros, a Holocaust survivor, a ``Nazi himself trying 
to continue what was not finished''; and

    (3) calling Black voters ``slaves'' to the Democratic Party and 
comparing the election of Muslim lawmakers to an ``Islamic invasion of the 
U.S. government'';

Whereas Representative Greene has consistently spread debunked and baseless far-
        right extremist conspiracy theories, including--

    (1) perpetuating false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 
election, which was a direct catalyst for the insurrection at the United 
States Capitol on January 6, 2021;

    (2) spreading damaging and hurtful false claims that several deadly 
school shootings had been staged, including the tragedies of Sandy Hook 
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, and Marjory Stoneman 
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, and confronting David 
Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, calling him a 
``coward'' and accusing him of being paid by George Soros, a liberal 
philanthropist; and

    (3) promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that prominent 
Americans are engaged in a secret plot to control the world and exploit 
children, which has been deemed by the FBI to ``motivate some domestic 
extremists, wholly or in part, to engage in criminal or violent activity'';

Whereas the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a warning to ``alert 
        the public about the growing threat of `ideologically-motivated violent 
        extremists''' agitated about President Biden's inauguration and 
        ``perceived grievances fueled by false narratives'', and Representative 
        Greene's statements and actions directly sow these warnings;
Whereas Representative Greene's continued presence on the Committee of Education 
        and Labor and the Committee on the Budget would bring disrepute to the 
        House of Representatives and would interfere with the important business 
        of those committees to undertake a fact-based analysis of the issues 
        facing the American people; and
Whereas Representative Greene should be immediately removed from her committee 
        assignments in light of the aforementioned conduct she has exhibited: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the following named Member be, and is hereby, 
removed from the following standing committees of the House of 
Representatives:
    Committee on the Budget: Mrs. Greene of Georgia.
    Committee on Education and Labor: Mrs. Greene of Georgia.
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