U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gives a media interview at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2020.
U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, hinted Friday (March 19) that she does not support a proposal by some Democrats, led by Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, to expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor, R-Georgia, from Congress. Greene (R-Ga.) from Congress.
About seventy House Democrats joined Gomez in signing the resolution. However, an absolute two-thirds majority is needed to expel a member of Congress, and that means a significant number of Republicans would need to agree as well.
Speaking to reporters on Friday about the push to expel Green, Pelosi said, “I’m not going to talk about that.” and implied that she did not support the resolution. “Members of Congress are very upset about some of the things that are happening here. They can express themselves in their own way. What Mr. Gomez did was his own opinion, and that’s not the opinion of the leadership.”
Expulsions of lawmakers are a rare occurrence in Congress. The last Time a lawmaker was expelled was in 2002, when then-Democratic Rep. James Traficant of Ohio was voted out of the House after being convicted on multiple corruption charges and facing a prison sentence.
In February, House Democrats and 11 Republicans voted to remove Green from the House Budget Committee and Education and Labor Committee for controversial social media posts made while she was a private citizen.
“Those are in the past, and they don’t represent me,” Green said at the time of the social media posts. “They don’t represent my constituency and they don’t represent my values.”
In a statement issued, Greene said Gomez’s resolution was an attempt to silence conservative views. It also noted that House Democrats are also leading an investigation into Republican Rep. Marianne Miller-Meeks of Iowa (also known as Iowa) and whether she actually won her seat in Congress. Miller-Meeks defeated Democrat Rita Hart by six votes.
Green’s office also told that Green’s personal Twitter account was blocked Friday as Gomez demonstrated his determination to fire her.
A spokeswoman for her office said Friday morning, “After multiple attempts to contact them, Twitter has not given any reason for this.”
In a statement, she wrote: “This move eliminates any possibility of Congresswoman Green defending her reputation, her seat, and most importantly, any possibility of the 230,000 Georgians in the 14th District voting on the Twitter platform. This is yet another attempt by the Silicon Valley Cartel (SVC) to silence the awakened voices of those who openly oppose its far-left, orthodox ideas.”
Twitter drew widespread criticism after blocking the accounts of former President Donald Trump (R) and many other prominent conservative figures and groups.
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