LIVE: Marjorie Taylor Greene Holds News Conference After House Removed Her from Committees

(Feb. 5) Watch live as GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) holds a news conference the day after the U.S. House voted to remove her from her committee assignments in Washington, D.C, on Friday, February 5, 2021.

The House voted Thursday to strip Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from her two committee seats for embracing conspiracy theories and violence against Democrats, dividing her own party as it tries to move past Donald Trump’s presidency.

With the 230-199 vote, the House will remove Greene from the committees responsible for education and the budget. Eleven Republicans voted with all Democrats in favor of the resolution.

Democratic leaders said Greene’s suggestions of violence and approval of social media threats against elected Democrats crossed a line.

“Tell me what message you think it sends,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer asked before the vote, referring to a doctored image Greene posted on Facebook of herself holding a rifle with photos of progressive congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.

After the vote, a statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office said the GOP representatives had “made it abundantly clear where their allegiances lie: with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, conspiracy theorists and QAnon believers. “

Though few Republicans defended Greene’s words, some who voted against the resolution said it sets a bad precedent for the majority to interfere with the opposing party’s committee assignments.

Greene, whom Trump had declared “a future Republican star,” spoke on the House floor earlier Thursday to plead her case, saying she has disavowed many of her previous bizarre beliefs, including raising questions about mass school shootings and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the U.S. But she didn’t directly apologize, and Democrats were unconvinced.

House Rules Chair Jim McGovern said he didn’t hear any actual apologies for “past comments and posts.” CNN reported that in one 2019 post, Greene “liked” a Facebook comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove Pelosi.

“Anyone who suggests putting a bullet in the head of a member, shouldn’t serve on any committee, period,” McGovern said. He added that “a line had to be drawn,“ and expressed surprise that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy didn’t take unilateral action to remove Greene from her committees.

Before the vote McCarthy told Democrats to “stop trying to invent dangerous and divisive ways to abuse the power of a majority.”

“Let me be very clear, Representative Greene’s past comments and posts as a private citizen do not represent the values of my party,“ McCarthy said. “As a Republican, as a conservative, as an American, I condemn those views unequivocally.”

But McCarthy took issue with what he called “a new standard” for the majority party to remove a minority member from committees. “You’ll regret this and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,” he warned the chamber’s Democrats.

Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, who has become an outspoken Trump critic, especially regarding lies about the November election, was among the Republicans who voted with Democrats to strip Greene of her committee posts. Asked if he found her floor speech convincing or credible, he said, “No, not necessarily.”

New York Representative John Katko was one of the other Republicans who voted for the resolution. He said he’s not worried about repercussions from GOP leadership for voting with Democrats.

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