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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 vi ....
The fact many democrats still see it that way. democrats and also outside observers. the debate clause in the constitution does allow she wasn t on the floor when she said these things. allows a lot of speech, a lot of latitude on speech, what they point out is that the republicans last year were promoting violence, or the year before, were promoting violence. congresswoman omar joined 30 house democrats in signing a resolution recognizing israel as america s legitimate and democratic ally and condemning anti-semitism. for all of this, eugene, here is congresswoman sparts telling me last week she s against removing omar from the committee. will you join the speaker if, as he says he will, he kicks omar off the foreign relations committee? that will require a vote. will you vote to kick her off that committee? i m going to see what is ....
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Other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. we had a good meeting yesterday. i think we gotta do it across the board. moments from now, speaker mccarthy will hold a press conference that is after the omar vote. we will bring you any update when that happens. we begin with kristin welker and yamiche alcindor, also susan page, charlie sykes, jason fuhrman, former chair of economic advisors. let s play what the speaker said at the white house and on the hill yesterday about that meeting. we both have different perspectives on this. i thought this was a good meeting. we promised we would continue the conversation. we will see if we can get there. at the end of the day, we can ....
Cut. the speaker nor the white house want it to be social security or medicare. the speaker has members who want it to be those issues. charlie, while speaker mccarthy is projecting optimism, he has to deal with the extreme members of his caucus that delayed the speaker vote for several days and all of those rounds, 15 rounds of vote. they could refuse to vote for the debt ceiling in any case with or without amendments. that s right. we re in the kabuki dance phase. everybody is wants to smile to the camera. wants to make it look like they are willing to negotiate, that they are not the ones who are the hostage takers. look, susan is right. there are reasonable compromises that can find a way to thread the needle. but the problem is, how many reasonable members of the republican caucus are there? can kevin mccarthy actually ....