it s a political stunt and disservice to the american people. what a hideous miscarriage of justice, a majority power crisising influence over house committee assignments right on cue, squad members tried to out outrage one another with their full outrage. [screaming]. [bleating]. the white supremacy happening is just a bunch of racist gas lighting. they turn congress into a place of fear mongering. my voice will get loudered and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. so utterly disingenuous but predicting. the fbi to the epa suddenly crying foul. why? because their committee position was actually put to a vote. how dare they be held accountable for their own toxic words and abysmal record? naturally their dog eared scripts about racism and mysogyny. this is an extension of that record. there is nothing consistent about the republican party s attack except for the incitement of women of color in this body. don t tell me th
this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay. and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. good day. i m andra mitchell in washington. this breaking news, you wafrp e it on the house floor. a heated debate is under way to remove congresswoman omar from the foreign affairs committee over her frequent criticism of israel. she later apologized for some of her comments but stood by others. omar is a refugee and one of the first muslim americans to serve in congress. speaker mccarthy claims he has the votes to oust her after two republicans who were opposed flipped their positions in the last 24 hours. this comes after democrats voted to remove republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last year for promoting violence
off her foreign affairs committee. the republicans doing that were being practicing mat mike. you know swalwell should not serve on intel. how many believe if you re a member of congress and the fbi said nothing but moment your leadership promotes to you the intel committee the fbi comes knocking on the leadership door and says we have a problem, this person has a relationship with a chinese spy? how many believe that person should stay on intel? now, the chairman of the intel committee, adam schiff, i believe i helped him because what he did to the intel committee he used that position as chairman knowing that classified information that others didn t and conveyed to the american public something that wasn t true to try to confuse them on a number of times. bingo. i got to tell you, mccarthy that is definitely handle this so far. the press of course came him teeth bared, he hit back into
washington times opinion editor fox news contributor. committee fights aside there is a real battle brewing about oversight that s going to really test them, is it not, going forward? i m talking about testing republican leadership. explain it. yes, it really is. i applaud them kicking omar and schiff and swalwell off the committees. that s small ball. the real test of republican zbrit going to be in the fbi and other department agencies resist and thumb they are noses at legitimate oversight requests and what are house republicans going to do in response? i know it wouldn t pass the senate but are they going to cut funding for these department and agencies? are they going to hold these agency heads in contempt? are they going to try to force these agencies to heal? this is the thing in d.c. a lot of this stuff is white noise. the fight is who decides who governs in d.c. as our
so utterly disingenuous but predicting. the fbi to the epa suddenly crying foul. why? because their committee position was actually put to a vote. how dare they be held accountable for their own toxic words and abysmal record? naturally their dog eared scripts about racism and mysogyny. this is an extension of that record. there is nothing consistent about the republican party s attack except for the incitement of women of color in this body. don t tell me this is about constency. don t tell me this is a condemnation of anti-semitic remarks. this is about targeting women of