Pelosi Disowns Effort by House Democrats to Remove Marjorie Taylor Greene: Expelling Her is ‘Not a Leadership Position’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters on Friday that she was taking no responsibility for an effort to eject Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress.

“I’m not going to get into that,” Pelosi told reporters. “Members are very unhappy about what’s happened here. And they can express themselves the way they do. What Mr. Gomez did is his own view. And that is not a leadership position.”

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) proposed a resolution to boot Greene from the chamber, saying that she made Democrats feel unsafe due to “numerous reports revealing her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence.” More than 70 Democrats signed on to the effort.

Greene, who joined Congress in January, was already removed from the Budget Committee and the Education and Labor Committee last month, despite objections from GOP leaders. Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to take that action.

The last time the House expelled a member was in 2002, when Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) was convicted on 10 felony corruption charges, which included taking bribes and using his congressional staffers to work on his farm. He served seven years in prison before his release in 2009.

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