[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 183 (Monday, November 6, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H5408-H5409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING A QUESTION OF THE 
                        PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX, I 
rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges 
of the House.
  The form of the resolution is as follows:
  H. Res. 845 censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting 
false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel 
and calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
  Whereas, Israel has existed on its lands for millennia, and the 
United States played a critical role in returning Israel to those lands 
in 1948 immediately following the Holocaust and in recognition of its 
rights to exist as an indelible signal of our solidarity with the 
Jewish people;
  Whereas, Israel is a critical ally to the American people and to our 
strategic national security interests in the Middle East;
  Whereas, the people of Israel, including American citizens, were 
brutally attacked on October 7, 2023, by Hamas;
  Whereas, Representative Rashida Tlaib, within 24 hours of the October 
7 barbaric attack on Jewish citizens in the State of Israel, 
representing the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, defended 
the brutal rapes, murders, beheadings, and kidnappings, including of 
Americans, by Hamas as justified resistance to the apartheid state;

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  Whereas, Representative Tlaib's October 8 statement claimed that 
Hamas' October 7 attack on the Jewish people was partly attributable to 
the United States security aid provided to Israel which ignores the 
fact that the Iron Dome, a codeveloped air defense system, saved lives 
that day by intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip against 
Israeli civilian targets;
  Whereas, on October 18, 2023, Representative Tlaib continued to 
knowingly spread the false narrative that Israel intentionally bombed 
the Al Ahli Arab hospital on October 17 after United States 
intelligence, Israeli intelligence, and President Biden assessed with 
high confidence that Israel did not cause the explosion;
  Whereas, on November 3, 2023, Representative Tlaib published on 
social media a video containing the phrase ``from the river to the 
sea'' which is widely recognized as a genocidal call to violence to 
destroy the State of Israel and its people to replace it with a 
Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean 
Sea;
  Whereas, Representative Tlaib doubled down on this call to violence 
by falsely describing ``from the river to the sea'' as ``an 
aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence'' 
despite it clearly entailing Israel's destruction and the denial of its 
fundamental right to exist; and
  Whereas, Representative Tlaib has repeatedly displayed conduct 
entirely unbecoming of a Member of the House of Representatives by 
calling for the destruction of the State of Israel and dangerously 
promoting false narratives regarding a brutal, large-scale terrorist 
attack against civilian targets inside the sovereign territory of a 
major, nonNATO ally while hundreds of Israeli and American hostages 
remain in terrorist captivity: Now, therefore, be it resolved that 
Representative Rashida Tlaib be censured.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Self). Under rule IX, a resolution 
offered from the floor by a Member other than the majority leader or 
the minority leader as a question of the privileges of the House has 
immediate precedence only at a time designated by the Chair within 2 
legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed.
  Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the 
gentleman from Georgia will appear in the Record at this point.
  The Chair will not at this point determine whether the resolution 
constitutes a question of privilege. That determination will be made at 
the time designated for consideration of the resolution.

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