Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Removing A Certain Member From Certain Standing Committees of the House of Representatives

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Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, it is good to be here today, but what I feel and what I believe as I am listening and I am hearing the debate is this is not really about words said by Mrs. Greene before she was ever elected overwhelmingly in her district.

If it was about language and that we were disciplining because of language, we would have disciplined somebody else on this side, on the Democrat's side, who said: ``Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evildoings of Israel.'' ``It is all about the Benjamins, baby.''

That would invoke some discipline, I would have thought.

How about this one comparing Jewish Israeli settlers to termites. That guy didn't get disciplined. He is still on the committees I sit on. He said: There has been a steady stream, almost like termites can get into a residence and eat. And before you know that, you have been eaten up, and you fall in on yourself.

It goes on and it goes on. The Speaker of this House has said that Republicans are enemies of the state. All of these incite violence. All of these demean. All of these dehumanize. All of these are statements that just should not be accepted, but they were accepted. There was no condemnation. And as the last speaker just said, no condemnation is an endorsement. So I guess there is endorsement from all of them on those statements.

So here today you are doing something that is unprecedented. You are taking somebody for things she said before she got into this body, and you are saying that we are going to control the minority choice of committee assignments. This has never happened before, but here it goes. I am afraid it is going to cascade, because that is not the way we should do this. You can't take away the rights of the minority leader and the minority conference. That is the problem that we have here.

No one endorses what Mrs. Greene said, but we endorse her election and the right of the leader to make her committee assignments and not to have those be taken away by the majority.

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