[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H347-H358]
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                                                                                                                                                 REMOVING A CERTAIN MEMBER FROM CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 91, I call up 
the resolution (H. Res. 72) removing a certain Member from certain 
standing committees of the House of Representatives, and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 91, the 
resolution is considered read.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                               H. Res. 72

       Whereas clause 1 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of 
     Representatives provides, ``A Member, Delegate, Resident 
     Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave 
     at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the 
     House.''; and
       Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene should be 
     removed from her committee assignments in light of 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.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution shall be debatable for one 
hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Ethics.
  The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) and the gentlewoman from 
Indiana (Mrs. Walorski) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Res. 72.
  In 2019, the FBI warned that ``antigovernment, identity-based, and 
fringe political conspiracy theories very likely to motivate some 
domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.''
  In October last year, this House voted nearly unanimously to condemn 
QAnon conspiracy theories because they encourage the rejection of 
objective reality, deepen political polarization, and undermine trust 
in our democratic institutions; but also because they have inspired 
real-world violence, bomb threats, vandalism, kidnapping, terrorism, 
murder, and insurrection.
  Congresswoman Greene of Georgia has a long history of amplifying 
dangerous conspiracy theories online and threatening violent, racist, 
Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic conduct. H. Res. 72 will ensure that 
Mrs. Greene's conduct is not rewarded with seats on two important 
committees.
  The Congresswoman has said that American citizens who practice Islam 
``do not belong in our government,'' and ``they should stay in their 
country.''
  Mr. Speaker, this is their country, and it is their government as 
much as any American's.
  Mrs. Greene has trafficked in dangerous anti-Semitic lies about the 
Rothschild family, George Soros, Zionist supremacists, and secret 
Jewish plots.
  Over millennia, because of baseless, ugly lies, millions of Jews have 
been hated, targeted, expelled from their countries, violently 
attacked, killed, and exterminated because words lead to action and 
death.
  Mrs. Greene claimed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School 
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26 people, including 20 6- and 7-year-old kids, was staged. She claimed 
the Las Vegas shooting that killed 60 people and injured over 800 was 
an orchestrated attempt to weaken gun rights. And she claimed the 
shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was a false flag event 
and called the survivors crisis actors.
  Mr. Speaker, the 17 people who never came home from school in 
Parkland on February 14, 2018, were my constituents. Their families' 
pain is real, and it is felt every single day.
  Yesterday, parents of children slain at Sandy Hook, Mark Barden, 
Daniel's dad; and Nicole Hockley, Dylan's mom, wrote a letter to Leader 
McCarthy to share how these conspiracy theories impact their families: 
``These vicious lies deny the deaths of our murdered children and bring 
death threats and constant harassment to our doors and our surviving 
children.''
  In 2019, Mrs. Greene created a White House petition to impeach 
Speaker Pelosi for treason, emphasizing that it is punishable by death, 
and she liked a Facebook comment stating that: ``A bullet to the head 
would be a quicker way to remove Speaker Nancy Pelosi.''
  In a video statement from December 31, 2018, Mrs. Greene called on 
her followers to storm Washington, D.C., in what sounds today like a 
prescient forecast of last month's deadly insurrection: Flood the 
Capitol. Flood all the government buildings. Go inside. We can end it. 
We can do it peacefully. We can. I hope we don't have to do it the 
other way, but we should feel like we will if we have to.
  Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what happened.
  Conspiracy theories and hate are malignant. They do not fade away. We 
must stand up to them and say, Enough.
  Mrs. Greene has promised that she will never apologize.
  Well, we are here today because Republican leadership has decided to 
embrace and elevate Mrs. Greene. They rewarded her with a seat on the 
committee of this House that has responsibility for teaching our 
children the truth and giving them a safe place to learn it.
  Two years ago, the Republican leader spoke on this floor, very 
strongly saying, ``I will pledge to you this, from this side of the 
aisle, and I hope you understand this clearly, any hatred, we take 
action.''
  Mr. McCarthy did take action, but it wasn't condemnation. It was 
elevation, appointing her to committee seats.
  That is why it is necessary to put this resolution to a vote for 
every Member of this body because this House must take action. I urge 
my colleagues to support this resolution and remove Representative 
Greene of Georgia from her positions on the Committee on Education and 
Labor and the Committee on Budget.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, let me be clear: I absolutely reject racism, anti-
Semitism, and bigotry. I condemn conspiracy theories and calls for 
violence. I do not, in any way, condone these reprehensible views. I am 
not here today to defend any comments made by Representative Greene, 
whether as a private citizen, candidate, or Member of Congress.
  I am here today to defend the precedent set by years of the majority 
and minority parties coexisting in this body; and I am here today to 
defend the House Ethics Committee, on which I serve as the ranking 
member.

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  H. Res. 72 is nothing more than a partisan power grab at a critical 
time when the majority party itself repeatedly calls for unity as our 
path forward. Bringing a majority resolution to the floor to remove a 
minority Member from her committee assignments is wrong and 
unprecedented.
  Referring such a resolution to the House Ethics Committee is 
unprecedented. Referring such a resolution to the House Ethics 
Committee and then completely bypassing the committee's role is 
unprecedented. On this floor today we are witnessing one more effort to 
consolidate power with a majority party and diminish the rights of the 
minority.
  This is not the first power grab effort by this majority in Congress. 
Earlier this year, the Democrats destroyed over 100 years of 
representation in Congress and effectively eliminated the only tool 
that safeguarded the minority's voice: the motion to recommit. And they 
are doing it again today with H. Res. 72.
  In the last 20 years, several Members have been removed from their 
committee duties. Members on both sides of the aisle have been removed 
and for various reasons. But those reasons and that decision was always 
made by the Member's party leadership, or party's membership. Even if 
the decision to remove a Member was followed with a voice vote on the 
House floor, the decision itself was made by that Member's caucus 
following weeks of public and private infighting.
  Last night, the Republican Conference met to discuss statements made 
by Representative Greene prior to her serving the Congress. We listened 
to Representative Greene. She made similar statements as she did on the 
floor today. She assured the Conference that her prior statements did 
not reflect her views today as a member of this body.
  The Democratic majority claims the Republican Conference hasn't 
acted, but that simply isn't true. The Conference just hasn't done what 
the Democrats want it to do.
  Regardless, the majority has brought this unprecedented resolution 
before the House today. The majority party could have brought this 
matter directly to the floor as a privileged question and the question 
of removal would have been a swift vote on the floor.
  Instead, the majority referred the resolution to the Ethics Committee 
to then immediately and completely bypass the Ethics Committee and its 
functions by bringing this resolution directly to the floor.
  Involving the committee, then to only bypass the committee, violates 
the collegial and bipartisan manner by which the Ethics Committee 
should operate.
  This is my second term serving on the Ethics Committee and I was 
looking forward to working with Chairman Deutch in a collegial and 
bipartisan manner. You see, the Committee on Ethics is unique. It is 
the only standing House committee with equal numbers of Democrat and 
Republican Members: five Democrats and five Republicans.
  There is a reason that neither party holds a majority on this 
committee and that reason is to avoid one party or the other 
weaponizing the committee's purpose for use in a political and partisan 
fashion.
  The committee has publicly warned of this risk before. In 2012, 
following a particularly contentious investigation, the committee 
publicly expressed the necessity of bipartisan cooperation within the 
committee leadership.
  The committee stated: ``Unlike any other committee, this committee 
avoids partisan legislative concerns and policies, and must have 
bipartisan cooperation for the committee to fulfill its constitutional 
mandate to police the Members, officers and employees of the House. 
That mission calls upon Members to step out of their partisan framework 
and approach the work of the committee without regard to their party. 
It is our recommendation, for any Member that serves on this committee, 
that he or she constantly evaluate their actions on the committee to 
ensure that they are living up to the highest standards of this 
committee.''
  Today, we do not see the Ethics Committee's leadership upholding the 
highest standards of bipartisan cooperation. We don't see today the 
chair and ranking member presenting a resolution on the House floor 
together.
  At the end of each Congress, the committee issues a report detailing 
the activities of the committee during the Congress. For each Congress 
Chairman Deutch has served on Ethics, the committee has worked in a 
collegial and bipartisan manner, to be able to state that--for the 
113th, 114th, 115th, and 116th Congress--all votes taken in the 
investigative subcommittees were unanimous.
  This stack of public reports represents all the hard work the 
committee has completed in the last four Congresses. All of this work 
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Members, the Members who were asked to serve in the investigative 
subcommittees and the committee's professional and nonpartisan staff--
was accomplished in bipartisan cooperation.
  In fact, Chairman Deutch himself recognized in the committee report 
for the 116th Congress that: ``All of the committee's work . . . is 
made possible by the committee's talented, professional, nonpartisan 
staff. The members of the committee wish to acknowledge their hard work 
and dedication to the committee and the House. In addition, the 
committee wishes to thank its departing Members . . . for their service 
and for the thoughtfulness and collegiality they showed during their 
time on the committee.''
  As you can see, the work on the Ethics Committee is extensive. In the 
116th Congress alone, the committee commenced or continued 
investigative fact-finding gatherings for 50 separate investigative 
matters, impaneled six investigative committees, and filed five reports 
with the House, totaling over 3,300 pages regarding various 
investigative matters.
  These tasks were agreed to by the chair and the ranking member of the 
committee. In fact, the phrase itself, ``chair and ranking minority 
member'' appears 38 times, 38 times in the committee rules. The 
Ethics Committee operates effectively because it is consensus driven 
with decisions made jointly by the chair and the ranking member.

  But that is not what is happening today on this floor. The current 
chair and ranking member have not received a complaint and determined 
whether the information meets the requirements of the committee rules.
  The current chair and ranking member have not jointly gathered 
information concerning this alleged conduct. Until yesterday's Rules 
hearing, the chair and the ranking member had not had a single 
conversation regarding Representative Greene.
  As I stated earlier, involving the committee then to only bypass its 
function, violates the spirit of how this unique committee operates. 
Once a majority determined that the Ethics Committee was the place for 
the resolution, it should have allowed the committee to consider the 
issues properly.
  I know our colleagues want to see the Ethics Committee function 
effectively and not to be used as a partisan political weapon on a 
manipulated platform. If the Ethics Committee is to consider reviewing 
statements made by Members of Congress before they were sworn in, then 
the matter should come before the Ethics Committee in a way that 
complies with committee rules, preserves the bipartisanship intended, 
and allows the committee to make legal conclusions and factual 
determinations in a collegial environment.
  All I ask is that we let the committee work, as it is supposed to, to 
effectively serve this body. To do so, the majority should withdraw 
this resolution if it chooses, and pursue the matter properly through 
the Ethics Committee. I reserve the balance of my time.


                             General Leave

  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and 
to include extraneous material on H. Res. 72.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Florida?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume, 
and I also note Republican colleagues purport not to defend any of 
Representative Greene's hateful statements or reprehensible conduct, 
instead, rely on process. The appeals to process should be recognized 
for what they are, an effort to shield her from her accountability for 
her egregious language and actions.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz), my friend and colleague from south Florida who has 
come to know the families from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, as well as I, 
and the sponsor of this legislation.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding.
  I rise to support H. Res. 72, legislation I never hoped to author.
  My resolution would remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from 
her committee assignments. We have already heard today a lot about 
precedents, so let me explain the precedents which brought us here.
  Congresswoman Greene advocated for the execution of a leader of this 
House. She advocated for the execution of former President Obama. She 
encouraged violence against law enforcement and has a long record of 
racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments.
  She spread cruel conspiracy theories, even claiming the horrific mass 
school shootings in Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged, and even 
stalked a young survivor of one of those tragedies, calling him a 
``coward.''
  These are unprecedented comments and actions by a Member. No one else 
on this floor has called for violence against other Members and law 
enforcement. Only one Member has done that and refused to back down, 
and that is the real precedent we are dealing with today.
  We have also heard about regrettable conduct before taking office, a 
so-called statute of limitations on bad behavior. Prior to her floor 
remarks this afternoon, Congresswoman Greene spent this entire week 
doubling down on her promotion of violence, bigotry, and conspiracy 
theories.
  Her response to her critics just yesterday was: ``I won't back down. 
I'll never apologize.''
  We have also heard today about revenge and whataboutism. Greene 
herself threatened that when Republicans wield the gavel, Democrats 
will face a similar fate.
  And if a Democrat proposes violence against Members and peddles 
dangerous lies and conspiracy theories, then refuses to renounce them 
and our caucus refuses to police it, then punishment would be in order.
  That is the reality of what we are dealing with today with 
Congresswoman Greene. We are dealing with conduct that brings shame on 
this House and a pointed refusal to denounce or internally police it by 
Republicans.
  Congresswoman Greene's past support and present reaffirmation for 
violence, intimidation, lies, and racism is dangerous. It is exactly 
the kind of conduct that helps fuel domestic terrorism.
  Mr. Speaker, I don't take this threat of violence lightly. Two years 
ago, a pipe bomb, one of 16 sent around the country in my name, sat in 
my district office for more than 24 hours with my staff handling and 
moving around it before anyone knew or told them it possibly contained 
an explosive device. None of my staff signed up for that kind of 
threat. No one should be terrorized at work.
  But what delivered that bomb to my office was not just one disturbed 
man. It was the culmination of endless lies, conspiracy theories, and 
hate that drove someone to violently attack his political rivals.
  We all saw that unfold again with deadly consequences here in the 
Capitol on January 6. We can't afford to have these kinds of violent 
threats continue and certainly not from someone in this very House. 
This is not about whether we find Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech 
offensive.

  The point here is that she has promoted and advocated violence. 
Denying her a seat at committee tables where fact-based policies will 
be debated and crafted is an appropriate punishment and restraint of 
her influence.
  Congresswoman Greene chose a dangerous and harmful path into this 
House, one filled with deliberate lies that fomented violence. Once 
elected and seated here as a sitting Member, she then also chose not 
only to stand by, but affirm those words and actions.
  A deathbed, mild walk back of a couple of wild conspiracy theories 
just moments ago is not enough to prevent her future harm. Importantly, 
there was no apology for the hurt and harm caused, and she did not 
express regret for the stalking of a teenage mass-shooting victim; nor 
for life-threatening statements she made or promoted against the leader 
of this House, and so much more.
  Now that she has made her choices, the House must limit the future 
harm and violence that she can invite on this body. The deceptive and 
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conduct that fueled such violence cannot be tolerated anywhere, 
certainly not in this House.
  We can take an important step toward restoring integrity, security, 
decorum, and truth in this House by removing Congresswoman Marjorie 
Taylor Greene from her committee assignments.
  While it is an action we do not take lightly, it is the necessary 
course of action in the face of her extraordinary behavior that is 
unbecoming of a Member of Congress.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McCarthy), the Republican leader.
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H. Res. 72. This 
resolution sets a dangerous new standard that will only deepen 
divisions within this House.
  For all of their talk about norms and institutions, it is the 
Democrats who have acted to undermine the people's House at every turn.
  Let's check the Record. Afraid for their political careers, they have 
moved to shut down debate and silence dissent in committee and on this 
floor. They went so far as to eliminate the motion to recommit--the 
minority party's only chance to offer an amendment--which stood for 
over a century until this year.
  They have rushed impeachment through without a shred of due process, 
just like today, reducing this tool from the highest constitutional 
remedy to just another opportunity to fundraise and go on TV.
  And now, they are declaring the majority has veto power over the 
minority's member selections for committee.

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  We have reviewed this with the historians. Never before in the 
history of this House has the majority abused its power in this way. 
Never in the entire history of this House have you ever abused the 
power in this way.
  But it is clear Speaker Pelosi's Caucus thinks differently. They are 
blinded by partisanship and politics, and it is the American people who 
will suffer the most because of it.
  Mr. Speaker, as for the Member in question, let me be very clear: 
Representative Greene's past comments and posts as a private citizen do 
not represent the values of my party. As a Republican, as a 
conservative, as an American, I condemn those views unequivocally. I 
condemned them when they first surfaced, and I condemn them today.
  Mr. Speaker, this House overwhelmingly voted to condemn the dangerous 
lies of QAnon last Congress and continues to do so. I made this clear 
when I met with Representative Greene.
  I also made clear that we, as Members, have a responsibility to hold 
ourselves to a higher standard. She acknowledged this during our 
conversation and apologized for her past comments. I will hold her to 
her words and her actions moving forward.
  Because these comments caused such deep wounds, I offered Leader 
Hoyer a path to lower the temperature and address these concerns in a 
productive way. I offered to remove Representative Greene from the 
Committee on Education and Labor, but it was rejected. It was rejected.
  Now, privately, I have had calls from many Democrats, acknowledging 
what they are doing is wrong. They understand that this partisan power 
grab is not only cynical, it is hypocritical. If this is the new 
standard, I look forward to continuing out the standard because if you 
look for a side that has a leadership that has done something when 
their Members do something as a Member, not prior, look to me, because 
I did just that.
  But when a Democrat freshman said, ``Israel has hypnotized the 
world,'' that supporting Israel is ``all about the Benjamins,'' and 
that 9/11 was ``some people did something,'' did Speaker Pelosi kick 
her off the Committee on Foreign Affairs, or did she keep her on the 
committee and even pose with her on the cover of a magazine?
  Will the standard change?
  When another Democrat was compromised by a Chinese spy, and it was so 
serious that the FBI had to brief congressional leaders, did Speaker 
Pelosi remove him from the House Committee on Intelligence or the 
Committee on Homeland Security after the briefing?
  I am the only other person that had that same briefing just recently. 
I was in the room with the Speaker. I heard what was said. I will be 
very clear: I would never have that Member on either of those 
committees.
  Or did she reward him by making him the head of the subcommittee 
overseeing the CIA?
  I guess there are different standards.
  Mr. Speaker, when the chairman of the Committee on Rules objected to 
certifying the 2016 election, citing Russian interference, did Speaker 
Pelosi censure him?
  How about when the chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services 
told supporters at a rally in 2017--she was a Member then, unlike the 
person we are talking about today--``If you see anybody from that 
Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, 
you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them, and you 
tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.''
  After she called for violence against public servants, did Speaker 
Pelosi condemn it, or did she look the other way and make her 
chairwoman again?
  I don't know if you want to amend this one and add others so you can 
keep your standard. The answer is obvious. While Democrats attack 
Congresswoman Greene, they not only ignore the infractions within their 
own party, they reward these Members with prestige and influence.
  Mr. Speaker, when it comes time to vote, I expect Democrats will 
codify this partisan power grab. I would advise them to think twice and 
pull this resolution from the floor while they still can.
  I have heard Democrats quote the Senate minority leader to defend 
this resolution. I would remind them what Leader McConnell said when 
Democrats voted to nuke the judicial filibuster: ``You will regret 
this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.''
  If that is the new standard, if people are held to what they have 
said prior to even being in this House, if the majority party gets to 
decide who sits on whatever committees, I hope you keep that standard 
because we have a long list you can work within your own.
  Mr. Speaker, in the end, this resolution is merely a distraction from 
the real issues. In the last 2 weeks, Democrats have taken just two 
votes: the one today and the one last month on a waiver for a Cabinet 
member.
  This is the least productive Congress since last year. I thought that 
would be hard to beat.
  There is nothing for workers who have lost their jobs, including 
thousands of blue-collar jobs that were eliminated just by a stroke of 
a pen of President Biden, even laying off the union workers who 
endorsed him. It is a shame. They need that job. It is a good-paying 
job. Nobody sat and talked to them before or asked them. They just laid 
them off.
  Nothing for students who have been stuck learning from behind screens 
for nearly a year, even though the administration's CDC Director says 
in-person learning is safe.
  Nothing to increase the pace of vaccine distributions so we can get 
them to people who want them and get one step closer to fully reopening 
this economy.
  At a time when households are already struggling, Congress should use 
its window of opportunity to get Americans back to work, kids back to 
school, and vaccines for any American who wants it.
  These are the immediate priorities that deserve our energy and our 
attention. This is what we would work on if we had the opportunity to 
be in the majority or even had the same opportunity that those in the 
minority had for last 100 years: to offer a motion to recommit.

  Mr. Speaker, as I said before, a House distracted cannot govern, and 
we are proving it one more time today. Let's stop trying to invent 
dangerous and divisive ways to abuse the power of a majority and start 
working on what really matters.
  No one supports what was said before a person ever became a Member. 
When a Member said something that was inappropriate on this side of the 
aisle, we removed them from committee because they said it when they 
were a Member.
  As we list the long list of the standards on the other side, no, no 
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got removed. They got rewarded. And now, the more than 200-year-history 
in this body is going to change. But if it changed as a standard to 
reach all, I will be right here with you.
  If the concern was really what the majority leader said to me about 
being on the Committee on Education and Labor, I am the first one to 
switch it. I actually offered it. That would be appropriate.
  But not for this majority. They believe something different, and that 
is wrong, just as the words that were said were wrong.
  That Member came to this floor to answer those questions. She did it 
as a Member of Congress, not as a private citizen, when they were said.
  Mr. Speaker, I listened to President Biden as I watched him sworn in. 
I heard the word ``unity.'' That is why I reached out, as well. If 
there is concern about education, we can fix that. If there is concern 
on the other side about working with people or getting laid off with 
every stroke of every executive order, I will work to fix that. If 
there is concern about getting kids back in school, we will work on 
that. If there is concern about getting a vaccine to any American who 
wants it, we will work on that.
  But unfortunately, the majority gets to decide what comes to the 
floor. And once again, this Congress will get listed as the least 
productive Congress in history.
  But the one thing it will have a record of is changing the rules to 
be one-sided, a long history that I believe this body will be 
embarrassed by.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Mrs. McBath).
  Mrs. McBATH. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and friend from 
Florida.
  Mr. Speaker, in 2 weeks, I celebrate the birthday of my son, Jordan. 
Every year since he was murdered, his birthday brings joyful memories 
but profound sadness.
  Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago, my pain on his birthday turned to horror 
and grief as I watched students in Parkland, children the same age as 
my son, run terrified out of their high school.
  I watched parents read texts from their kids that said: Mom, if I 
don't make it back, thank you for everything that you have done for me.
  I watched as 17 families realized that their lives are never going to 
be the same.
  Mr. Speaker, throughout history, words have shown and have had the 
power to unite this Nation with unity and hope, or the power to divide 
with bigotry and hate. Words have an impact on everything that we do 
here in this Chamber, on this Hill, in this body. Every action that we 
take makes life better for the American people.
  This today is about a Member's words and actions that are beneath 
this body, beneath the American people that we have sworn to protect.
  This is about a Member stalking the children of tragedy, attacking 
survivors, and threatening violence. This is about a Member denying the 
existence of dead children at Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory 
Stoneman Douglas High School. This moment is about parents across 
America who now celebrate their child's birthday just like me.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Jordan), ranking member of the Committee on the 
Judiciary.
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, who is next? Who is next?
  Everyone has said things they wish they didn't say. Everyone has done 
things they wish they didn't do.
  So who is next? Who will the cancel culture attack next?
  Former New York Times editor Bari Weiss--not a conservative--had to 
resign because of the environment at that paper. She had to resign--she 
coined this term--the ``digital thunderdome.''
  You engage in wrong-think? You engage in wrong-speak? You are going 
in the thunderdome.
  Today, it is Mrs. Greene. Who is it going to be tomorrow?
  I have heard several times on the floor today from the Democrats, 
``conspiracy theory.'' The Democrats peddled the biggest conspiracy 
theory of all time, the Russia hoax.
  For the last 4 years, they peddled this theory. Two of those years, 
they spent $40 million, 19 lawyers, 40 FBI agents, 500 witnesses, 2,500 
subpoenas, but came up with zero collusion.
  The former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, he was 
going on television all the time, talking about the coordination and 
the collusion that was going on. But what did he say behind closed 
doors when he was under oath in the Intelligence Committee? He said 
this: I never saw any evidence that the Trump campaign was conspiring 
with the Russians to meddle with the election.
  No evidence, but they peddled this theory for 4 years.
  And think about this: The guy who started the debate off today for 
the Democrats, the Democrat chair of the Committee on Rules, 4 years 
ago, guess who was the first person to object to the 2016 Presidential 
election? The guy who kicked off the debate for the Democrats today 
going after Mrs. Greene, the gentleman from Massachusetts. Guess what 
his reason was: the Russian hoax conspiracy theory.
  And guess which State he objected to. Alabama.

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  That is right, January 6, 2017, the guy who kicked off the debate 
from the Democrats objected to Alabama, a State that President Trump 
won by 30 points. The first person to kick off the debate today 4 years 
ago objected to Alabama based on this Russian hoax conspiracy theory. 
And now, they are coming after Mrs. Greene.
  I stood right here 3 weeks ago, and I said this cancel culture will 
not just come after Republicans; it is going to come after us all. It 
is going to come after us all. This is what is scary. And it took all 
of 13 days--all of 13 days--for that to be proven true.
  Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein Elementary School is no longer 
named after Senator Feinstein. That is how bad this is.
  I hope this stops, and I hope it stops soon.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
New Jersey (Mr. Malinowski).
  Mr. MALINOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, when we talk about unity, let's remember 
we were united last October when the House came together almost 
unanimously to condemn QAnon in a resolution that I had introduced. We 
said that QAnon was fanning the flames of anti-Semitism, that the 
looney lies it was spreading online would lead to people being killed 
in the real world.
  But then yesterday, Mr. McCarthy, the minority leader, said something 
that mystified me. He cited that resolution as a reason not to remove 
Representative Greene from her committee. We had already condemned 
QAnon, he suggested, so why would we need to do anything else?
  It is like saying: We condemned bank robbery last year. We don't need 
to actually stop any bank robbers this year.
  How could almost 400 of us say that QAnon is a threat and then when 
we see someone who has spent years spreading the same conspiracy 
theories, the same anti-Semitism, the same calls for violence, someone 
who 3 days ago called her critics pedophiles--not 2 years ago; 3 days 
ago--then say that person should be given all the privileges of a 
Member of the House?
  Mr. Speaker, if you condemn QAnon, that means you have to fight it. 
If you believe that these conspiracy theories are dangerous, you have 
to separate yourself from the people who are spreading them.
  If even a substantial number of us stand with Representative Greene 
today, violent extremists will see it as another sign that they have a 
legitimate place in our national debate, that respectable leaders in 
our society either embrace them or fear them too much to stand in their 
way.
  I ask you, do not send this message. Let's unite against extremism, 
not with it.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, about a month ago, 3 weeks ago, I suspended my 
social media accounts, my personal social media accounts. I did so 
because social media is pretty much consuming the way we govern.
  And I will just say, why are we governing by sound bite? Why are we 
governing by looking back at what somebody said on Twitter or Facebook?
  This is a body that is called under the Constitution to meet on the 
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way--and to sit here and debate, and to debate the important issues of 
the day.
  A few weeks ago, I was proud to stand with my colleagues on both 
sides of the aisle to condemn what occurred on January 6. I joined with 
some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to disagree on the 
issue of objections.
  And then to have a Member on the other side of the aisle attack my 
former boss and friend, Senator Ted Cruz, and basically accuse him of 
being an attempted murderer? I asked that that statement be stricken 
and there be an apology for it. I didn't ask that somebody be stripped 
from their committeeships. I didn't ask that they be censured. I tried 
to engage with that colleague--have and will. And then this last 
weekend, I had a statement directed at me, accusing me of the worst 
kind of horrific act.
  Where is this body going to go, ladies and gentlemen? Now, we are 
here in the first few weeks of this Congress attacking a freshman 
Member, who is addressing the concerns of statements that I take issue 
with, that a number of my colleagues on this side of the aisle take 
issue with, and you are going to unilaterally strip her of a committee 
assignment.
  This is not the people's House anymore. I made this statement 
yesterday on the budget reconciliation.
  I had a great conversation with the distinguished majority leader 
today about our need to restore regular order. And I would just ask my 
colleagues that we remove this.
  I made a motion to adjourn because we shouldn't be wasting the time 
of this body attacking a Member of this body. This will not end well.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I just want to make clear that this is not an action by 
one party. This is a House resolution. Today, all of us will be voting.
  And the Constitution couldn't be clearer. Article I, Section 5 vests 
the House with the authority, independent of the Ethics Committee, to 
discipline a Member. As a sanction for such behavior, the House may 
limit any right, power, privilege, or immunity of that Member. I am 
sure my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are aware of that.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Georgia 
(Ms. Williams).
  Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the 
resolution to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from her 
committee assignments.
  Her words and actions tout dangerous and deadly QAnon conspiracy 
theories, threaten our national security, and put the lives of every 
person at risk.
  On January 6, we witnessed what can happen when our leaders spread 
baseless conspiracy theories and spew violent rhetoric that echoes the 
same call to violence that resulted in a domestic terrorist attack on 
the United States Capitol.

  We can't control what Representative Greene does and says, but we can 
control how we operate as a governing body that holds its officials 
accountable.
  I am particularly concerned about her appointment to the Education 
and Labor Committee, which not only has oversight of the education of 
our children, but also has the responsibility to ensure students have 
safe environments to learn.
  I watched in horror at the footage of Representative Greene berating 
a Parkland shooting survivor, a teenager who came to Capitol Hill 
seeking help from lawmakers to put an end to mass shootings and prevent 
other high school students from having to witness the senseless murder 
of their classmates and teachers.
  This is personal for me. As a mom of my Carter, who just started 
kindergarten, and as a survivor of a school shooting my senior year of 
high school that claimed the life of a classmate, I still live with 
that trauma today.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle say they disapprove of 
Representative Greene's actions. However, disapproval without action 
means nothing.
  This is about doing what is right. As Dr. King stated, it is never 
the wrong time to do the right thing.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Gohmert).
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, this is personal to me. I have dedicated so 
much of my adult life to the Constitution of the United States.
  If you go back to 1884--it has been cited for about 80 or 100 years 
even--the Select Committee back in 1884 was taking up the issue of a 
Member of Congress being expelled. The committee said that because the 
conduct was committed during an earlier Congress: It must be said that 
with practical uniformity the precedents in such cases are to the 
effect that the House will not expel a Member for reprehensible action 
prior to the election of a Member, not even for conviction of an 
offense. That has been so frequently decided in the House that it is no 
longer a matter of dispute.
  And, yes, that was expelling from the House, but you are wanting to 
expel a Member from being a full Member, as she was elected to do.
  Now, James Madison--hopefully, that name rings a bell--said if the 
legislature could regulate those--talking about qualifications--which 
in this case would mean you have to meet our qualifications for what 
you say before you are a Member of Congress or you don't come in. He 
said if you could regulate those qualifications, ``it can by degrees 
subvert the Constitution. A Republic may be converted into an 
aristocracy or oligarchy as well by limiting the number capable of 
being elected.'' Qualifications founded on artificial distinctions may 
be devised by the stronger party in order to keep out partisans of a 
weaker party.
  This is so dangerous. Never in the history of the Congress has a 
majority party taken such fanatical action to remove somebody from the 
other party from committees. This is unprecedented.
  We had a Senator named Biden who looked at a Ku Klux Klan recruiter 
as a mentor and friend, and you punished him by inaugurating him as 
President.
  Look, please, I know there are so many good, decent Democrats. We 
disagree on a lot of things, but as a matter of conscience--you talk 
about conscience. You have to know if you do this, just like Democrats 
objecting to electors and then coming around later and saying, oh, you 
are disenfranchising voters. Look, if you do this, you know the day 
will come when Republicans will not like something you said and start 
removing you from committees. This is not a road to go down.
  I beg you, please, don't start this precedent. It won't end well for 
either party. But we will follow your lead if you lead.
  I am imploring you, do the right thing. Vote ``no'' on this 
resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their 
remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Michigan (Ms. Tlaib).
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, after decades of living through 
discrimination from our government, my older Black neighbors in my 
district finally began having a sense of hope that a new generation of 
elected leaders is here.
  Recently, however, those same neighbors have told me they began to 
feel that fear again because of what is happening here in this Chamber. 
In today's Republican Party, Marjorie Taylor Greene's world views are 
violent, anti-Black, racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic, and they 
are condoned.
  Every single day that goes by without outright condemnation from 
every single one of her Republican colleagues, without consequences for 
her extremist views, is an outright endorsement of white supremacy. We 
owe it to our residents who have been victim of these very hateful 
views to take action.
  When Members like Marjorie Taylor Greene proudly claim that Muslims 
shouldn't be allowed in this Congress, or that 9/11 attacks were fake, 
or that the Speaker of the House should be executed, there must be 
consequences.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Biggs).
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, it is good to be here today, but what I feel 
and what I believe as I am listening and I am hearing the debate is 
this is not really about words said by Mrs. Greene before she was ever 
elected overwhelmingly in her district.
  If it was about language and that we were disciplining because of 
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we would have disciplined somebody else on this side, on the Democrat's 
side, who said: ``Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the 
people and help them see the evildoings of Israel.'' ``It is all about 
the Benjamins, baby.''
  That would invoke some discipline, I would have thought.
  How about this one comparing Jewish Israeli settlers to termites. 
That guy didn't get disciplined. He is still on the committees I sit 
on. He said: There has been a steady stream, almost like termites can 
get into a residence and eat. And before you know that, you have been 
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  It goes on and it goes on. The Speaker of this House has said that 
Republicans are enemies of the state. All of these incite violence. All 
of these demean. All of these dehumanize. All of these are statements 
that just should not be accepted, but they were accepted. There was no 
condemnation. And as the last speaker just said, no condemnation is an 
endorsement. So I guess there is endorsement from all of them on those 
statements.
  So here today you are doing something that is unprecedented. You are 
taking somebody for things she said before she got into this body, and 
you are saying that we are going to control the minority choice of 
committee assignments. This has never happened before, but here it 
goes. I am afraid it is going to cascade, because that is not the way 
we should do this. You can't take away the rights of the minority 
leader and the minority conference. That is the problem that we have 
here.
  No one endorses what Mrs. Greene said, but we endorse her election 
and the right of the leader to make her committee assignments and not 
to have those be taken away by the majority.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Illinois (Ms. Kelly).
  Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H. Res. 72, 
to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee post.
  Congresswoman Greene is part of the cult conspiracy mindset that has 
infected segments of our American society and is ripping our Nation 
apart.
  The wild conspiracy theories that QAnoners invent are, in essence, 
outrageous lies. Even more alarming, they are lies backed by the threat 
of violence.
  Yes, Representative Greene and her QAnon adherents are ready to 
defend their deranged lies with violence. They have expressed a desire 
to assassinate Speaker Pelosi and to publicly execute those who 
disagree with their malignant lies. They have even expressed a 
passionate desire to overthrow our constitutional democracy.
  Congresswoman Greene indicated before last year's election that, if 
Donald Trump lost, Americans may need to reclaim freedom with the price 
of blood.
  Marjorie Greene has harassed a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman 
Douglas High School shooting, calling him a coward and proclaiming the 
massacre was staged as a plot to pass more gun laws.
  Yet her Republican colleagues believe she has the proper credentials 
and principles to serve on the Education and Labor Committee. Some will 
play both sides, but that is a false equivalence.
  I think it is clear that we need to draw the line at Jewish space 
lasers and calling for political assassinations, not policy 
differences. At least with one xenophobic racist, both sides were able 
to put country over party. The party of Honest Abe can no longer be 
honest with itself.
  Marjorie Greene and her fellow conspiracy theorists have saturated 
our Nation with lies. It is time to turn the tables and start talking 
about truth for a change.
  Gandhi liked to say: ``Even if you are a minority of one, the truth 
is the truth.''
  Mr. Speaker, I urge everyone to join in defending truth. Stand up for 
truth even if you are alone.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Babin).
  Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, at the direction of the narrow Democrat 
majority, we are here today standing in judgment over a newly elected 
colleague of ours for things said as a private citizen that have since 
been retracted.
  Meanwhile, some colleagues have engaged in anti-American, anti-
Semitic tropes and commentary before and after their elections to 
Congress. Other colleagues have incited and called for violence across 
the country the day Donald Trump became President, and still encourage 
violence against him and those who support the Republican Party, not to 
mention other dangerous words that have been harmful to the security of 
our Nation.
  But, Mr. Speaker, none of those are in question. Those Members never 
saw any condemnation and, in this Democrat majority, they never will.
  I went to the Rules Committee yesterday, strongly opposing to this 
course of action, with a suggestion to correct this blatant double 
standard, should it move forward. I was told by the chairman that, ``We 
don't share the same values,'' because I was demanding that we 
prioritize accountability for members of his party and their comments 
and dangerous rhetoric carried out while in office before we address 
Representative Greene's commentary made before she was elected.
  Perhaps the chairman is right. My values are that anyone who 
blatantly calls for violence against Conservatives; praises deadly 
antifa riots; endangers Americans; encourages the destruction of our 
ally Israel; and, perhaps worst of all, dismisses the significance of 
9/11 has no business serving in the House of Representatives.
  In closing, Mr. Speaker, no one in Congress should be more grateful 
than the Democrat majority that eliminated our motion to recommit last 
month and the Democrat members who have made these inflammatory remarks 
over the years, because I have no doubt that a motion by Republicans to 
oust those Representatives would have succeeded with very strong 
bipartisan support. By shattering this precedent today, perhaps this 
majority has set in motion a future majority's obligation to do so.
  If my Democrat colleagues are attempting to take the speck out of our 
eye, I encourage them to also take the log out of their own eyes.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Minnesota (Ms. Omar).
  Ms. OMAR. Mr. Speaker, this is not about one Member. This is about 
who we are as a body and what we are as a democracy. This is about 
whether it is acceptable to cheer on and encourage an insurrection 
against our basic democratic processes. This is about whether it is 
okay to demand Members swear in on a Bible of a religion they do not 
practice. This is about whether it is okay to hold an assault rifle 
next to Members' heads in a campaign ad and incite death threats 
against them. This is about whether it is okay to encourage the murder 
of the Speaker of the House.

  As a survivor of civil conflict and civil war, I know political 
violence and political rhetoric does not go away on its own. This is 
about whether or not we will continue to be a peaceful and functioning 
democracy.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Good).
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to have taken my oath 
on that Bible, which I do follow and try to live my life after.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to object to the left's pattern of teaming 
up with the mainstream media to try to stifle the voices of 
conservatives.
  First, it was 4 years of trying to remove President Trump. Today, it 
is trying to strip my friend, Marjorie Taylor Greene, of her committee 
assignments. It is only a matter of time until they start coming after 
everyday Americans.
  We travel down a dangerous road today when the majority party is 
threatening to make committee assignments for the minority. Mr. 
Speaker, my friends across the aisle, as we have seen and as we have 
just heard from one, certainly have no shortage of members who have 
expressed very offensive opinions after they were elected to this body.
  Democrats are not looking to lower the temperature or deliver results 
for the American people. Their goal is to cause chaos and divide our 
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they can continue to expand their radical left agenda until they have 
silenced all opposing viewpoints.
  Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the White House. If they 
wanted to deliver results to the American people, they could do it. But 
their agenda is clear: they don't want to govern. They want to rule and 
clamp down on any dissent to their radical agenda.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Missouri (Ms. Bush).
  Ms. BUSH. Mr. Speaker, St. Louis and I rise in defense of our 
Nation's schoolchildren. I cannot sit idly by and allow white supremacy 
and hatred to have decisionmaking power over our students' futures.
  To my Republican colleagues: let history remember what you did in 
this moment. A prerequisite for appointment to these committees and for 
all that we do must be that you love and represent all people.
  We owe it to our children and we owe it to their parents to have a 
House Education and Labor Committee that is committed to fighting for a 
country where all children have an equitable education in an 
intentionally anti-racist society. Let me say that again: an 
intentionally anti-racist society.
  From the Ferguson-Florissant school district in St. Louis to the 
Normandy, Hazelwood, Riverview Gardens, Jennings, and University City 
school districts, to St. Louis Public Schools, all of our school 
districts deserve better. Harris-Stowe State University, University of 
Missouri-St. Louis, our tech and trade schools, St. Louis University, 
and Washington University deserve better.
  Our teachers, our custodial workers, and our cafeteria workers 
deserve better.
  Our students who don't have a roof to sleep under at night, our 
students who don't have running water at home, our students who don't 
have enough to eat deserve better.
  Those living with student debt and those who desire to go to college 
deserve better.
  Our parents deserve better.
  We cannot build an equitable, anti-racist education system if a 
seated House Education and Labor Committee member incites violence 
through the perpetuation of racist lies in an attempt to overturn an 
election. We cannot build an equitable, anti-racist society if a Member 
of Congress endorses white supremacy. We need to strip them of their 
committee assignments. And then we must pass our resolution, H. Res. 
25, to investigate and expel them.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Hice).
  Mr. HICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the hypocrisy here is an outrage. 
My fellow Georgian, Congresswoman Greene, stood right here in this 
House and took full responsibility for her statements. That is more 
than we can say for any of the many in this Chamber who have made 
outrageous, hate-filled, and vile statements and comments over the past 
years--and recent months, in particular.
  For example, a Democrat member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee 
has repeatedly made blatant anti-Semitic statements. She still holds 
her position.
  The Democratic chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee 
encouraged supporters to aggressively assault anyone who supported 
President Trump. She still holds her position.
  The Speaker of the House has called Republicans enemies of the state. 
She still has her position.
  While we watch cities in flames, businesses being destroyed, officers 
killed, and civilians attacked, a member of the majority party called 
for further unrest in the streets. She still has her position.
  I have got four pages of similar comments, and this is by no means 
exhaustive. Inflammatory rhetoric around here has become commonplace, 
unfortunately, and Members of this House have absolutely crossed the 
line by calling for violence and making other similar remarks. The 
majority refuses to hold its own members accountable. This is the 
zenith of hypocrisy and injustice.
  Mr. Speaker, I call on and urge our Members to oppose this 
resolution.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Ohio (Mrs. Beatty).
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, it is a shame that we must use precious 
time on the floor of the people's House to address the inflammatory 
remarks of Member Marjorie Taylor Greene. But just as we are in the 
midst of three crises of the coronavirus, the economic distress, and 
social injustice, we must also act against a crisis of extremism and 
unhinged conspiracy theories.
  Disturbing and dangerous words and actions like those we have heard 
and seen from this individual in this House are below the dignity of a 
Member of Congress. And if they did not stop when we were all sworn in, 
then, if anything, these backward views gained a national platform.
  Well, I stand here to tell you, Mr. Speaker, I will stand up to 
bullies who threaten students and threaten and celebrate violence 
towards our Speaker and our colleagues. Today, as the conscience of the 
Congress, it is important that we take this step to affirm that 
conspiracy theories and outrageous lies have no place in the Congress 
and no place in the people's House. No place. No place.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
South Carolina (Mr. Norman).
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Speaker, here we sit on this fourth day of February 
and, here we go, we have a pandemic that is shutting down businesses 
all across this country. We have schools shut down, causing havoc with 
our children. We have a national debt of over $30 trillion. We have 
seniors wondering if their Social Security payment will be suspended 
due to anticipated bankruptcy. We have a Democratic Party focusing 
today and yesterday on bypassing the legislative process and issuing 
executive orders defunding our police departments, destroying our 
energy independence by shutting off our production of oil and gas, 
allowing men to identify as women and going to any bathroom of choice.
  And what is the majority, who are spending the hard-earned tax 
dollars, doing today?
  Attempting to throw a member of our party, who was duly elected, 
because of something purportedly to have been said before she got into 
Congress.
  Here is what I ask: Throw us all off the committees. Throw all of us 
off.
  God, I hope the American people see what you are doing and that this 
is nothing more than an abuse of power by a party drunk with power.

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  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Hayes).
  Mrs. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this resolution 
on behalf of my constituents in Connecticut's Fifth District.
  The statements made by the Representative from Georgia have amplified 
horrific and deeply dishonest rhetoric and empowered and mainstreamed 
fringe conspiracy theories about school shootings. Giving any Member 
the platform to spread dangerous rhetoric only rewards and normalizes 
this behavior, places already vulnerable groups in danger, and further 
traumatizes survivors.
  There is no place in this House for a Member that trivializes these 
events or refuses to publicly disavow her own words or apologize to 
those affected.
  Mr. Speaker, there are men and women on both sides of the aisle whom 
I strongly disagree with, colleagues who have made statements that have 
deeply offended me. Yet, I have never believed we should remove them 
from committees on this body.
  But today is different. We are forced to make this motion, not 
because of a disagreement in values or opinions, but because the 
Republican Conference has refused to take any actions addressing 
dangerous comments made by a Member, comments which have no place in 
common discourse and cannot be given a platform to be amplified.
  While I remain respectful of the voters in Georgia, we have a 
responsibility as a body to hold our own Members accountable, and I 
would vote in the same way if a member of my own caucus had committed 
the same infractions.
  No Member of Congress should promote conspiracy theories or sow doubt 
about the validity of tragic mass casualty events like Sandy Hook, 
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have to invite a Member of Congress to visit their child's grave or 
touch the bullet-riddled clothing that their child wore to prove that 
their death actually happened.
  Mr. Speaker, the Speaker of this House always tells Members to vote 
our district. Today, I vote as an act of conscience in defense of my 
district. I vote for the babies who left for school 8 years ago and 
never returned home, and the teachers who died trying to protect them.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut.
  Mrs. HAYES. Today, I will vote for millions of educators who stand 
bravely before students while they lead lockdown drills and whisper 
quietly to them while sheltering in place that school is still safe.
  I will vote ``yes'' on this resolution for the parents and the 
communities who want real debate that produces real solutions for 
keeping schools and communities safe.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Indiana (Mrs. Spartz), my new colleague.
  Mrs. SPARTZ. Mr. Speaker, as someone who grew up in a communist 
country where people were punished for expressing their opinions, I 
have an enormous appreciation for our First Amendment rights. This is a 
core principle our Nation was founded on.
  I might not like many things that my colleagues from both parties 
have to say. Sometimes I think they are crazy things, but I will still 
vigorously defend their First Amendment rights and rights of free 
speech, especially what they have said as private individuals before. 
The voters will decide if they are the right representative for them.
  It is a slippery slope to start policing people's opinions, and our 
Congress will start resembling a communist politburo if we are not 
careful. I would really like my colleagues to think before they make 
this vote.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), my friend and neighbor.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot here today 
so, in closing, let me remind my colleagues that we were sent here, not 
only to uphold the Constitution, but to uphold the standard of conduct.
  Let me share with you what should have happened. What should have 
happened is some remorse for the pain that the gentlewoman from Georgia 
has caused and to acknowledge that pain, the damage that she has 
caused, the violence she has advocated.
  I would have hoped that she would have realized, like so many of us 
have, the awe and gravity of serving in this institution and that, 
despite all the harm that the words and actions she has taken have 
caused, that now that she is a Member of this body, she truly 
understands and is sorry she stalked the teenager who was a victim of a 
mass shooting; sorry that she actually suggested that our leader of the 
House of Representatives should meet a bullet as her end; sorry that 
she suggested that President Obama should have his life snuffed out.
  But none of that happened, and that is why she has forfeited the 
right to serve on committees in this House of Representatives.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Clyde).
  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose this unprecedented 
power grab orchestrated by the Democrats.
  Much has been said about what my colleague from Georgia has spoken of 
in her past, but the past is past. I do not believe Congress has 
jurisdiction to re-litigate what a Member of this body said before they 
took their solemn oath of office. That is an issue to be adjudicated by 
her constituents at the ballot box in the 14th District of Georgia, not 
here in Congress.
  Without question, this body is putting itself on an extremely 
dangerous path, a path that opens the door to allowing the majority 
party to strip the minority party members of their committees, based on 
statements made or beliefs held before holding office.
  It is clear the resolution before us is not about my colleague; it is 
about Democrats seizing upon an opportunity to further suppress the 
rights of the minority party, to silence a bold member of the 
opposition, and to thereby further their socialist agenda.

  Members of Congress have a duty to hold themselves to the highest 
standards, and I know Marjorie is doing just that. I expect no less 
from my Democratic colleagues, which is why this resolution must not 
pass.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader 
of the House of Representatives.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, this is a sad day and a difficult day for the 
House of Representatives and for our country. I have had the great 
honor of serving this body for 40 years and in that time, I have never 
encountered a situation like the one before us now, where a Member has 
made such vile and hurtful statements, engaged in the harassment of 
colleagues, and expressed support for political violence. None of us 
should take any pleasure in what we must do today.
  But to do nothing would be an abdication of our moral responsibility 
to our colleagues, to the House, to our values, to the truth, and to 
our country.
  A great forebear of legislators, Edmund Burke, famously declared: 
``The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to 
do nothing.''
  Yesterday, the Republican Conference chose to do nothing, so today, 
the House must do something.
  I have heard some condemnation from across the aisle of the contents 
of Representative Greene's statements. Some have condemned the white 
supremacist and anti-Semitic things she said and posted online. Some 
have condemned the falsehoods she shared about 9/11 and the horrific 
school shootings.
  But I have heard little from Republicans about the horrific 
statements made by their colleague making threats of violence against 
Democratic elected officials and her threatening conduct toward 
Representative Bush and others.
  Indeed, Mr. Speaker, there seems to be much silence when it comes to 
her incitement of political violence.
  In The Washington Post yesterday, columnist Greg Sargent wrote:

       Whatever happens to Representative Greene, the truth is 
     unavoidable: Republicans have yet to offer a clear and 
     unambiguous declaration that political violence is 
     unacceptable and has no place in their ranks.

  And I have heard too much about process and not enough about 
accountability.
  No Member ought to be permitted to engage in the kind of behavior 
that Representative Greene has and face zero consequences. This vote 
can be a first step in correcting the error of those who, so far, have 
chosen to do nothing.
  A short while ago, Representative Greene came to this floor to defend 
her indefensible conduct. I heard no apology.
  She claimed that we are here today only because of some things she 
wrote online before she ever ran for Congress, as if one's moral slate 
is wiped clean when one becomes a candidate for office.
  Regardless, the conduct we are judging today continued to occur even 
after Representative Greene became a candidate, and even after she was 
elected.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to look at this image.
  I heard about motherhood today. Two of those women between them have 
six children. They are mothers. One of them does not have children, and 
she has come to this body asking for more housing for people, for more 
healthcare for people, for more income for people. How awful.
  And they are not the Squad. They are Ilhan, they are Alexandria, and 
they are Rashida. They are people. They are our colleagues.
  And yes, you may have disagreements, but I don't know anybody, 
including  Steve King, who you precluded from going on committees for 
much less--and this is an AR-15 in the hands of Mrs. Greene. This was 
on Facebook just a few months ago.
  Is that a message of peace and reconciliation and peaceful democratic 
dialogue--The Squad's worst enemy, AR-15 in hand.

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  I have never ever seen that before. Is this a precedent-setting 
event? It is, because the conduct, the tweeting, the QAnon 
association--I heard the disavow of QAnon. I learned more.

                              {time}  1745

  AR-15, ``Squad's Worst Nightmare.'' Is that what it was intended to 
do, that each one of these ladies would have a nightmare about somebody 
with a gun, an AR-15 that can carry a clip of up to 60 bullets?
  I urge my colleagues to look at that image and tell me what message 
you think it sends.
  Here she is, armed with a deadly assault rifle, pointing it toward 
three Democratic Members. Now, the pictures were put together, you 
understand. They were not present; I understand that. And she captioned 
it ``Squad's Worst Nightmare.''
  Yes, some people are having nightmares and fear. And some people who 
wanted to give other people nightmares committed sedition and broke 
into the House of Representatives and tried to stop us from electing a 
President of the United States.
  These three faces are real people. They are three reasons we are 
here. But there are many other reasons we are here today.
  In 2019, during the same election cycle in which she ran, she showed 
support for comments online that the quickest way to remove Speaker 
Pelosi from power would be ``a bullet to the head.'' Did any of you 
hear Steve King say anything like that? You removed him from all of his 
committees.
  But as I said, you did nothing. As a matter of fact, you gave a 
standing ovation, as I understand. I wasn't there. What message does 
that send? What message does it send to have a standing ovation to give 
these three women nightmares?
  Indisputably, these are clear threats to commit or incite political 
violence, not from years ago but just months ago. Imagine the pain that 
these Members' families must be experiencing when they see pictures 
like this one. Imagine what their children think when they know their 
loved ones are walking the Halls of Congress and may encounter 
harassment, as it happened to Representative Bush?
  So I ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, when they take 
this vote, imagine your faces on this poster. Imagine it is a Democrat 
with an AR-15. Imagine what your response would be. Would you think 
that that person ought to be held accountable?
  But when acquiescence to the suggestion of violence of any kind is 
allowed to go unchecked, it is a cancer that metastasizes on the body 
politic of our Nation, as we saw just a few days ago on January 6.
  Cancer, that is how Senate Republican Leader McConnell described it. 
He said: ``Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the 
Republican Party and our country.'' Should we stand silent in the face 
of that kind of activity?
  He continued: ``Somebody who has suggested that perhaps no airplane 
hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-
staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.'s airplane is not living 
in reality.''
  That is not me talking. That is not a Democrat talking. That is 
Senator McConnell.
  ``This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families 
or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.''
  My colleagues across the aisle have an opportunity today to reclaim 
their party from the dangerous cancer of QAnon and violent conspiracy 
theories that promote and have demonstrably resulted in sedition and 
insurrection.
  Senator Romney--you remember Senator Romney. He was a candidate for 
President of the United States on the Republican ticket, nominated in 
the Republican convention. He said of his party this week: ``I think we 
should have nothing to do with Marjorie Taylor Greene and think we 
should repudiate the things she said and move away from her.'' ``Our 
big tent is not large enough to both accommodate conservatives and 
kooks.''
  Not my words, his words, a Republican Member of the United States 
Senate. Now, he is not a big buddy of Trump's, so apparently he didn't 
have to do what Trump suggested he do.
  And Senator Ernst, a conservative woman from Iowa: ``She doesn't 
represent the party. I don't want her to be the face of our party. I 
think this is a great time for us to really talk about what we want to 
see in the upcoming years and continue to build. We don't need people 
that are promoting violence or anything like that.'' That is a 
Republican conservative Senator.
  Republican Senator and former Governor of Florida Rick Scott said--a 
conservative Republican Senator--``That is not what the Republican 
Party stands for.''
  Let me suggest to you, if it is not, vote with us. Vote with the 
House, not Democrats. Vote with the House of Representatives. Vote with 
good order and peace.
  Furthermore, Senator Young from Indiana said: ``There ought to be no 
place'' in the Republican Party for the kind of views espoused by 
Representative Greene.
  That is what McCarthy said when you kicked King off of all his 
committees. This is not something you haven't done. However, sadly, you 
left it to us to do your job.
  Representative Cole called her statements ``extraordinarily 
disturbing.'' He said that yesterday; it is an old quote.
  And Senator Thune asked his fellow Republicans in the House: ``Do 
they want to be the party of limited government''--I think the answer 
to that is yes--``or do they want to be the party of conspiracy 
theories and QAnon?''
  Furthermore, Senator Young from Indiana said: ``There ought to be no 
place'' in the Republican Party for the kind of views espoused by 
Representative Greene.
  That is what your Republican colleagues have said. This is not 
partisan. This is about principle.
  And you can shake your head as much as you want. This is not about 
party. It is about whether or not you will vote for decency and truth, 
not the Members' worst nightmare.
  I hope we can do it together, all of us, embracing our humanity and 
our basic adherence to the Constitution.
  Edmund Burke, who I quoted earlier, said: The only thing necessary 
for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
  Let us not do nothing.
  I often share another passage shared so long ago by Edmund Burke when 
a new Member arrives to serve in the House. It concerns a duty a 
representative has to his or her constituents. His conclusion on that 
matter is that we owe them our unbiased opinion, mature judgment, and 
enlightened sense of conscience.
  What does your conscience tell you to do in light of this kind of 
assertion? Nothing?
  Burke told his own constituents that these virtues of a 
representative ``does not derive from your pleasure,'' ``nor from the 
law and the Constitution. They are a trust from providence, for the 
abuse of which'' you are ``deeply answerable. Your representative owes 
you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead 
of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.''
  This is not about polling. This is not about your base. This is about 
your conscience and your moral judgment.
  In other words, each of us ought to look inside our hearts to the 
answer that we know is right and is best for the House and for our 
country.
  If the Republican Party for less toxic language took committee 
assignments away from Steve King, should they do less in this instance?
  There is no doubt that if somebody came to the Congress and had said, 
before they came to the Congress, ``I am for violent revolution against 
the Government of the United States of America,'' your party would say 
that is not somebody we want to be associated with.
  That is not what she said; I do not assert that. But should we do 
less than you did for Steve King for far less toxic language?
  Let us not do nothing. Mr. Speaker, let us do the right thing.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Budd).
  Mr. BUDD. Mr. Speaker, today is really about one party single-
handedly canceling a Member of the other party because of something 
said before that Member was even elected.
  This isn't about agreeing or disagreeing with the comments. This is

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about Democrats abusing their power and using it to cancel.
  This sets a very dangerous precedent. There are Members across the 
aisle who have said alarming things recently. They have made anti-
Semitic comments repeatedly. They have made anti-American comments 
repeatedly. And they have made comments threatening violence 
repeatedly.
  Cancel culture should not take over our country. Cancel culture 
should not take over our tech platforms. And cancel culture certainly 
should not take over the House of Representatives.
  We need to let the gentlewoman from Georgia serve and to allow her 
constituents to judge her performance at the ballot box.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, I absolutely reject racism, anti-Semitism, and bigotry, 
as I said earlier. I condemn conspiracy theories and calls for 
violence. I do not in any way condone these reprehensible views.
  Sadly, though, here we are today to effectuate another partisan power 
grab. The Democratic majority has taken unprecedented steps to 
marginalize Republicans just because we have not done what they want us 
to do, and that is wrong.
  There is a reason that neither party holds a majority on the Ethics 
Committee, and the reason is to avoid one party or the other 
weaponizing the committee's purpose for use in political and partisan 
fashion.
  The majority should withdraw this resolution and, if it chooses, 
pursue this matter properly through the Ethics Committee.
  If the resolution is not withdrawn, then I will vote ``no'' and hope 
at some point the Ethics Committee will again be used to serve this 
body as intended.
  Our colleagues deserve better, and the House, as an institution, 
deserves better. I ask my colleagues to vote ``no.''
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, let me just address some of what we have heard today.
  First, we have heard the argument made by our colleagues that this is 
something that should go to the Ethics Committee, despite the fact that 
we have the authority to be here today to tackle something that our 
friends should have tackled.
  But then they turn around and say that the Ethics Committee doesn't 
have jurisdiction for anything that has been said before a Member is 
elected, thereby creating a loop that will result in no accountability, 
zero accountability, for any of the horrific sayings, any of the 
horrific actions that have been promoted by Representative Greene on 
social media and in her words.
  We also heard that what we are doing here risks deepening dangerous 
divisions. The dangerous divisions that exist in our country resulted 
in an attack on this Capitol, putting all of our lives at risk. We are 
trying to stop the divisions in our country by not giving a platform to 
the kinds of conspiracy theories that helped to inflame them.
  We heard that this is cynical and hypocritical. Mr. Speaker, is there 
anything more cynical and hypocritical than to be told on the floor of 
this House that the minority leader was prepared to take Mrs. Greene 
off the committee, not because it was the right thing to do, but 
because it was a political decision he was willing to consider?
  Finally, we heard that Representative Greene has apologized for this. 
She came to the floor today. She acknowledged that 9/11 happened; she 
acknowledged that school shootings are real; and she acknowledged that 
she learned some things about QAnon that she didn't know before.

                              {time}  1800

  There was no apology. There was nothing to address any of the pain 
and hurt that she has done to my constituents and gun violence 
survivors in every part of this country and the families who lost loved 
ones.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to be here today. This hateful rhetoric is in 
the real world as well, outside the Halls of Congress, not just here. 
Memories of the lives we have lost to gun violence are being forsaken 
by those who baselessly claim those tragedies were false flag events. 
Online rants about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and conspiracy 
theories have manifested in real and violent acts. It is not a debating 
society that we are participating in. This has real impact, in the real 
world.
  Finally, I close with this, Mr. Speaker: We are worried about 
precedent?
  So am I. So we should all be. And the precedent of rewarding a Member 
of the House by giving her a platform of a congressional committee to 
amplify dangerous conspiracy theories is one we should never set.
  Leader McCarthy said so himself. I would remind my colleagues again, 
2 years ago he said: Any hatred, any hatred we take action.
  Unfortunately, the only action taken by Republican leadership has 
been to appoint Representative Greene to two powerful committees.
  This resolution condemns the practice of promoting extreme 
ideologies, conspiracy theories, and antigovernment rhetoric. The 
resolution proclaims that there is no place for such conduct in this 
Congress or in society. When Mrs. Greene came to the floor today and 
compared the media to QAnon, it is a reminder of just how important 
this action is that we are about to take. This is why we must adopt H. 
Res. 72.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 91, the previous question is ordered on 
the resolution.
  The question is on adoption of the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 
8, the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 230, 
nays 199, not voting 2, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 25]

                               YEAS--230

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Axne
     Barragan
     Bass
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bourdeaux
     Bowman
     Boyle, Brendan F.
     Brown
     Brownley
     Bush
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Cartwright
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Cooper
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crist
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis, Danny K.
     Dean
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Delgado
     Demings
     DeSaulnier
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle, Michael F.
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Frankel, Lois
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Gimenez
     Golden
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Haaland
     Harder (CA)
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs (CA)
     Jacobs (NY)
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (TX)
     Jones
     Kahele
     Kaptur
     Katko
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (CA)
     Kim (NJ)
     Kind
     Kinzinger
     Kirkpatrick
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Lamb
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lawrence
     Lawson (FL)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin (CA)
     Levin (MI)
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Luria
     Lynch
     Malinowski
     Malliotakis
     Maloney, Carolyn B.
     Maloney, Sean
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McEachin
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Newman
     Norcross
     O'Halleran
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Raskin
     Rice (NY)
     Ross
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Rush
     Ryan
     Salazar
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Sires
     Slotkin
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (WA)
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Speier
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Suozzi
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone

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     Underwood
     Upton
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Welch
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                               NAYS--199

     Aderholt
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice (OK)
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brady
     Brooks
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Budd
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Cawthorn
     Chabot
     Cheney
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     Davidson
     Davis, Rodney
     DesJarlais
     Donalds
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Emmer
     Estes
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia (CA)
     Gibbs
     Gohmert
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gonzalez (OH)
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hagedorn
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hartzler
     Hern
     Herrell
     Herrera Beutler
     Hice (GA)
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Hollingsworth
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Issa
     Jackson
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Keller
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lesko
     Long
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Mace
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKinley
     Meijer
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Mullin
     Murphy (NC)
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunes
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palazzo
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reed
     Reschenthaler
     Rice (SC)
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Taylor
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walorski
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Young
     Zeldin

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Fudge
     Wright
       

                              {time}  1848

  Mr. NEWHOUSE changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


    members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress

     Amodei (Kelly (PA))
     Axne (Stevens)
     Barragan (Beyer)
     Bowman (Clark (MA))
     Buchanan (Arrington)
     Cardenas (Gomez)
     Carson (Butterfield)
     Cohen (Beyer)
     Cooper (Clark (MA))
     DeSaulnier (Matsui)
     Fallon (Nehls)
     Frankel, Lois (Clark (MA))
     Gallego (Gomez)
     Garcia (IL) (Pressley)
     Gonzalez, Vincente (Gomez)
     Gosar (Wagner)
     Hastings (Wasserman Schultz)
     Jayapal (Clark (MA))
     Kirkpatrick (Stanton)
     Langevin (Courtney)
     Larson (CT) (Courtney)
     Lawrence (Kildee)
     Lawson (FL) (Evans)
     Lieu (Beyer)
     Lofgren (Jeffries)
     Long (Wagner)
     Lowenthal (Beyer)
     Lynch (Clark (MA))
     Maloney, Carolyn B. (Jeffries)
     McEachin (Wexton)
     McHenry (Banks)
     Meng (Clark (MA))
     Mfume (Brown)
     Moulton (Beyer)
     Napolitano (Correa)
     Payne (Wasserman Schultz)
     Porter (Wexton)
     Price (NC) (Butterfield)
     Roybal-Allard (Correa)
     Ruiz (Aguilar)
     Rush (Underwood)
     Speier (Scanlon)
     Titus (Connolly)
     Trahan (McGovern)
     Vela (Gomez)
     Watson Coleman (Pallone)
     Wilson (FL) (Adams)
  

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