[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H4331-H4332]
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

  Ms. MACE. 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. 713, censuring Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and 
removing her from the Committee on Education and Workforce and the 
Committee on the Budget.
  Whereas Charlie Kirk was a lifelong advocate for freedom of speech, 
civil political discourse, and the political engagement of youth;
  Whereas Charlie Kirk was a man of deep faith, a husband, and a father 
to two young children;
  Whereas on September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the 
campus of Utah Valley University while exercising his First Amendment 
right to freedom of speech;
  Whereas on September 11, 2025, one day after the assassination of 
Charlie Kirk, Representative Ilhan Omar gave an interview on a Zeteo 
Town Hall with Mehdi Hasan in which she smeared Charlie Kirk and 
implied he was to blame for his own murder;
  Whereas on September 12, 2025, two days after the assassination of 
Charlie Kirk, Representative Ilhan Omar reposted a video on X (formerly 
known as Twitter), which disparaged the character of Charlie Kirk and 
those mourning his death;
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X states 
``Charlie Kirk is dead, and before the body got cold, the far-Right 
propped his corpse up as a cudgel for their holy war'';
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X further 
states ``Don't be fooled, these people don't give a single shit about 
Charlie Kirk, they are just using his death to further their 
Christofascist agenda'';
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X further 
states Charlie Kirk ``was a reprehensible human being. He enacted his 
political agenda by preying on weak minded people. He took complex 
socioeconomic issues and simplified them by pointing fingers at out-
groups, demonizing those groups, and siccing his massive following on 
them'';
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X further 
states Charlie Kirk was a ``stochastic terrorist, an adamant 
transphobe, he denied the genocide happening in Palestine, he believed 
in the subjugation of women, and in his last dying words he was spewing 
racist dog whistles'';
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X further 
states ``Charlie Kirk was Dr. Frankenstein and his monster shot him 
through the neck'';
  Whereas the video Representative Ilhan Omar reposted on X further 
blames Charlie Kirk for his own murder;
  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 Ilhan Omar's actions in the wake of the 
assassination of Charlie Kirk are reprehensible and affect the dignity 
and integrity of the proceedings of the House and do not reflect 
credibility on the House: Now, therefore, be it
  Resolved, that--
  (1) Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota be censured;
  (2) Representative Ilhan Omar forthwith present herself in the well 
of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure;

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  (3) Representative Ilhan Omar be censured with the public reading of 
this resolution by the Speaker; and
  (4) Representative Ilhan Omar be, and is hereby, removed from the 
Committee on Education and Workforce and the Committee on the Budget of 
the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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 
gentlewoman from South Carolina 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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