These House Republicans voted to sink Marjorie Taylor Greene's censure resolution accusing Rashida Tlaib of 'leading an insurrection'
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- Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to censure Rashida Tlaib for "leading an insurrection."
- Tlaib addressed pro-Palestine protestors as they held a sit-in at a Capitol Hill office building.
- Several Republicans joined Democrats to table Greene's resolution.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib has failed — in major part thanks to her home-state Republican colleagues.
On Wednesday, a majority of the Republican-led House voted to table the Georgia Republican's censure resolution, which accused the Michigan Democrat of being antisemitic, sympathizing with terrorists, and "leading an insurrection."
Greene notably has her own history of antisemitic pronouncements and once suggested that Tlaib was not a legitimate member of Congress because she was sworn in with a Quran rather than a Bible.
The resolution relies on several mischaracterizations of Tlaib's past comments and positions, including suggesting that she feels a "calming feeling" when thinking of the Holocaust and characterizing her criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.
Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American in Congress, has indeed irked some of her Jewish colleagues by describing Israel as an apartheid state — a term employed by several international human rights organizations.
The resolution also characterizes a sit-in protest on Capitol Hill led by two Jewish anti-Zionist groups — IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace — as an "insurrection."
The October 19 protest included a large crowd outside the Capitol and a sit-in in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building. Tlaib spoke to the crowd outside.
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While Republicans are often quick to criticize Tlaib, Greene's resolution apparently went too far for some of them, and a handful made their opposition clear in the days before the vote.
Interestingly, a disproportionate number of Republican votes to table the resolution came from Michigan Republicans.
Here are the 23 Republicans who voted to table Greene's resolution:
- Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota
- Rep Ken Buck of Colorado
- Rep. John Duarte of California
- Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina
- Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia
- Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
- Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
- Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan
- Rep. Darrell Issa of California
- Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota
- Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California
- Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
- Rep. Tom McClintock of California
- Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia
- Rep. Max Miller of Ohio
- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks or Iowa
- Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan
- Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
- Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia
- Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana
- Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio
- Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
- Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan