EVEN AFTER TAYLOR GREENE APOLOGIZES HOUSE DEMOCRATS STILL WANT TO CENSURE GREENE, WHAT ABOUT REP. OMAR
" U.S House Rep. Brad Schneider, (D-Ill) Will Introduce A Bill This Week To Censure Taylor Greene, House Dems Need To Take A Long Look At Members In Their Party."
June 15, 2021 By Art Fletcher & Leo Madison Reporting For: Englebrook Independent News,
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized for afforting people with her recent comments comparing the required mask wearing in The U.S. House of Representatives to the horrors of The Holocaust.
" I am truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust," the Georgia Republican told reporters outside the Capitol, saying she had visited Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, earlier in the day. " There is no comparison, and there never will be."
Taylor Greene's apology was a rare expression of regret by the Conservative demagogue, a freshman Congresswoman whose career has included the embrace violent and at times offensive conspiracy theories and angry confrontations with progressive colleagues in The House.
Monday's apology came nearly three weeks after appearing on a conservative podcast where she compared Covid-19 requirements adopted by Democrats controlling the House to " a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star." She said they were "put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. This is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."
Taylor Greene's comments were condemned by Republican Leaders, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, (R-Calif), who called her comparison, " appalling."
GOP Leaders have often been reluctant to reprimand Greene, who is a close ally of former President Donald Trump. After Social Media posts were uncovered in which Greene supported executing some Democratic Leaders, McCarthy and the majority of Republicans stood by her when the House took the unusual step of stripping Greene of her Committee Assignments, back in February.
With The House Members returning to The Capitol on Monday after a three week break, Taylor Greene was contrite,
" Anti-Semitism is true hate," she said. " And I saw that today at The Holocaust Museum."
On Monday, she told reporters that when she was nineteen, she visited the site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in which during World War II was Nazi occupied Poland. " It isn't like what I learned about it today," she said of the Holocaust, where six-million Jews, and a large number of others were killed. " I went today because I thought was important," she said, and wanted to talk about it as she apologized.
House leaders have recently said that vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks on The House Chamber.
Representative Brad Schneider, (D-Ill.), said he would introduce a resolution in the house this week to censure Taylor Greene.
In addition, Republican Lawmakers may try to force a vote to punish Representative Ilhan Omar. The Minnesota Progressive Democrat recently made remarks criticized by top House Democrats and Jewish Lawmakers for comparing The United States and Israel to Hamas and The Taliban. Omar said she didn't mean to draw that parallel.
With Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent remarks to Omar's comments, it will be unlikely that she will allow a vote to take place to punish and censure Omar, leading to a continued division within the House.
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