Thursday evening, House Democrats, in an unprecedented action, voted 230-199 to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her two committee assignments. This vote followed an hour of debate and an unsuccessful motion by the GOP to adjourn.
This followed a meeting of the Republican members of the House on Wednesday evening. Greene addressed her controversial social postings, and apologized for some of them. Evidently, she received a standing ovation for her remarks from at least half of those present. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was emphatic that, while Republicans have removed their own members from committee assignments and Democrats have attempted to do the same to fellow Democrats, never has one party attempted to strip assignments made by the other party. McCarthy had offered House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer a compromise, to pull Greene off of the Education and Labor Committee in response to a complaint by Hoyer, while keeping her on the Budget Committee; but Hoyer insisted upon a full floor vote.
