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Giovanni Russonello writes for the New York Times On Politics newsletter this morning on the highly unusual move by the House yesterday to strip rightwing extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene from her positions on committees. He writes:
While party caucuses have from time to time stripped their own members of their committee assignments as a disciplinary measure, yesterday’s vote was the first time in modern US politics that the majority party had used a chamber-wide vote to depose a member from the minority.
Greene called her previous comments “words of the past” that “do not represent me” and said she should be given an opportunity to learn from her mistakes. “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret,” she said.
Democratic Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has just given his social media reaction to the vote, praising his caucus for their unity.
The Senate passed the budget resolution to quickly deliver more emergency COVID relief.
Our caucus worked together in unity to respond boldly to this crisis, and we are grateful President Biden put together the American Rescue Plan.
We will keep working hard to make it law.
