Appears someone has decided to play political hardball right back in the demoncrap’s faces.<\/p>\n
House passes resolution to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee<\/a><\/p>\n The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass a resolution to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n House Republicans have argued Omar should not serve on the committee in light of past statements she has made related to Israel that in some cases been criticized by members of both parties as antisemitic. Democrats have criticized the push to oust Omar, arguing it amounts to an act of political revenge and that the Minnesota Democrat has been held accountable for her past remarks. The party-line vote was 218 to 211. GOP Rep. David Joyce of Ohio voted \u201cpresent.\u201d<\/p>\n Omar was defiant in a floor speech ahead of the vote. \u201cMy leadership and voice will not be diminished if I am not on this committee for one term. My voice will get louder and stronger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo take your vote or not \u2013 I am here to stay, and I am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world,\u201d the congresswoman said.<\/p>\n House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused Republicans of seeking \u201cpolitical revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI will move immediately to seat Rep. Omar on the House Budget Committee where she will defend Democratic values against right-wing extremism,\u201d Jeffries\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0after the House vote.<\/p>\n The action by House Republicans comes after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u00a0officially denied seats\u00a0<\/a>on the House Intelligence Committee to Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, the former chairman of the panel \u2013 a decision that was condemned by Democrats.<\/p>\n McCarthy\u00a0vowed last year\u00a0<\/a>that if Republicans won back the House majority, he would strip Schiff, Swalwell and Omar of committee assignments, arguing that Democrats created a \u201cnew standard\u201d when they held the majority by removing Republican Reps.\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Greene\u00a0<\/a>of Georgia and\u00a0Paul Gosar\u00a0<\/a>of Arizona from committees for violent rhetoric and posts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Appears someone has decided to play political hardball right back in the demoncrap’s faces. House passes resolution to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass a resolution to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee. House Republicans have argued Omar … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-desserts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94525,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524\/revisions\/94525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}