WASHINGTON (AP) Divided House Republicans approached showdowns Wednesday over Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Liz Cheney, who ve antagonized opposing wings of a GOP struggling to define itself without Donald Trump in the White House.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met for 90 minutes late Tuesday with Greene, R-Ga., and aides said little about the outcome. The hard-right freshman has burst onto the national political scene after using social media to endorse outlandish conspiracy theories and violent, racist views.
McCarthy is under bipartisan pressure to remove Greene from her committee assignments. The Democratic-run House Rules Committee scheduled an initial step Wednesday toward doing that, which could lead to a rare vote by the full House to erase Greene s committee assignments.
2021/02/03 13:16 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susa. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) In this Jan. 4, 2021, photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., center, stands with other GOP freshmen during an event at the Capitol in Washington.. In this Jan. 4, 2021, photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., center, stands with other GOP freshmen during an event at the Capitol in Washington. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is calling the far-right Georgia Republican s embrace of conspiracy theories and loony lies a cancer for the Republican Party. House Democrats are mounting an effort to formally rebuke Greene, who has a history of making racist remarks, promoting conspiracy t
Republicans are wrestling over how to handle a bipartisan outcry against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and how to handle Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted to impe.
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