Raising a question of the privileges of the House.

Whereas the gentlewoman from Georgia, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, serves on the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on the Budget, two committees of considerable influence within the House of Representatives; Whereas clause 1 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives provides, A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House. Whereas Representative Greene’s actions and statements do not reflect the values of decency, morality, or civility, and represent a pattern of appalling behavior wholly unacceptable in the House of Representatives and the United States; Whereas Representative Greene has fomented divisions within Congress and the United States as a whole by advocating for and encouraging more extremism, violence, and sedition, making racist statements, and spreading baseless conspiracy theories; Whereas Representative Greene has consistently advocated for extremism, violence, and sedition against Members of Congress and former elected officials, specifically— (1) supporting individuals calling for the execution of Democratic leaders, including former President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on social media; (2) liking a comment on social media that urged for a civil war 2.0 (3) posting on social media a photoshopped picture of herself holding a rifle alongside photos of Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, captioned Squad’s worst nightmare (4) as part of an effort to raise funds for her campaign, using an expletive to describe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, writing that we’re going to kick that b—— out of Congress (5) liking a comment on Facebook that said, a bullet to the head would be quicker through removal or death, doesn’t matter, as long as she goes Whereas Representative Greene has consistently made racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamaphobic statements, including— (1) saying she would feel proud (2) calling George Soros, a Holocaust survivor, a Nazi himself trying to continue what was not finished (3) calling Black voters slaves Islamic invasion of the U.S. government Whereas Representative Greene has consistently spread debunked and baseless far-right extremist conspiracy theories, including— (1) perpetuating false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, which was a direct catalyst for the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; (2) spreading damaging and hurtful false claims that several deadly school shootings had been staged, including the tragedies of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, and confronting David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, calling him a coward (3) promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that prominent Americans are engaged in a secret plot to control the world and exploit children, which has been deemed by the FBI to motivate some domestic extremists, wholly or in part, to engage in criminal or violent activity Whereas the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a warning to alert the public about the growing threat of ideologically-motivated violent extremists perceived grievances fueled by false narratives Whereas Representative Greene’s continued presence on the Committee of Education and Labor and the Committee on the Budget would bring disrepute to the House of Representatives and would interfere with the important business of those committees to undertake a fact-based analysis of the issues facing the American people; and Whereas Representative Greene should be immediately removed from her committee assignments in light of the aforementioned conduct she has exhibited: Now, therefore, be it That the following named Member be, and is hereby, removed from the following standing committees of the House of Representatives: Committee on the Budget: Mrs. Greene of Georgia. Committee on Education and Labor: Mrs. Greene of Georgia.

Summary: This resolution removes Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Committee on the Budget and the House Committee on Education and Labor.