House Democrat Reads Blistering Resolution to Censure Marjorie Taylor Greene on House Floor: ‘Has Repeatedly Called for Violence’

Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) read a lengthy and scathing censure resolution aimed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

On Thursday, Greene introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who is Palestinian American for “leading an anti-American and anti-Semitic insurrection.”

“By leading an anti-American and anti-Semitic insurrection on October 18, 2023, Rashida Tlaib followed Hezbollah’s orders to carry out a day of unprecedented anger,” Greene said, referring to a pro-Palestine demonstration Tlaib attended. Tlaib has also been criticized for keeping her Palestinian flag displayed outside her congressional office after the Hamas attacks.

Hours later, Balint read her own resolution – which she actually first introduced in July – during a withering 11-minute floor speech.

“House Resolution 610 – censuring Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Balint began, before launching into a litany of offenses:

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly debased the memories of thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, by perpetuating conspiracy theories to shift blame and responsibility for the mass murder;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly assaulted the foundation of our democracy by perpetuating conspiracy theories related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol which sought to halt the peaceful transfer of power;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly called for violence against elected representatives
and their families;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly espoused antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, including through inflammatory evocations of the Holocaust;

Whereas, on May 20, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the mask mandate in the House of Representatives was akin to Jews being ‘‘put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany’’;

Whereas, on May 25, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that, ‘‘Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star’’;

Whereas, on February 26, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at a white nationalist event that was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as ‘‘appalling and outrageous that a Member of Congress would share a platform with an individual who has actively spread antisemitic bile, mocked the Holocaust and promoted dangerous anti-Israel conspiracy theories’’;

[…]

Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That–

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene be censured;

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure;

and

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker.

Watch above or read the rest of the resolution here.