GOP leadership has called for an official censure and her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and House Democrats called for a resolution this weekdenouncing anti-Semitismafter Omar recently tweeted, “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to..…
By Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was claiming it was not necessary to refer to her by name, declaring Omar hadn’t intended her comments “in an anti-Semitic way.” . House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) declared the Democrats were controlled by..…
If we elected Republicans — members of the supposedly anti-socialist party — from now until forever, and if we left the free market unchanged, that would make no meaningful difference in stopping the progress of this disintegration. ..…
After a furious, divisive debate, Democrats got together Thursday for a resolution condemning both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim intolerance by 407-23 votes. All 23 noes were Republican. Rep Liz Cheney called the vote a “sham” and said the resolution failed to address the issue..…
Mainstream Democrats pulled their support; the Democratic National Committee ended its sponsorship of the Women’s March, and party leadership denounced Omar’s anti-Semitic tweets. . The right, predominantly non-Jewish Republicans, weaponized the harm done to Jews by these leaders to..…
I am told by House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer that this land grab was priority of the anti-growth environmental groups that oppose further in Western states — where most of this land would be seized. Amazingly, Republican-controlled Senate approved the..…
However, Republican lawmakers have slammed the bill as anti-democratic and unconstitutional. . ..…
Critics say the promotion of anti- Muslim groups with hawkish policy views raises wider questions about Republican push to unseat Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee... ..…
The Democrats in the Virginia legislature are not just anti-gun, they are anti-property. As are any Republicans in Congress or state legislatures who support gun-control laws. . ..…
Republicans and the Trump administration have been expanding a series of anti-trans bills and policies that target trans people predicated on similar myths spread by Beck. ..…
.), who is the chair of the House Republican Conference. . Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) voted “present.” . ... “Same thing as Steve King,” Fitzpatrick, who won re-election last year by defeating an anti-Israel Democrat, told Jewish Insider. . ..…
Some Democratic senators in the upper chamber of Congress, including three 2020 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, expressed frustration that Omar faced an implicit rebuke, while racist statements by President Donald Trump and other Republicans go largely..…
The House approved revised bill on anti-Semitism early Thursday evening with expanded focus on white supremacists, neo-Confederates, and violence against black and Muslim Americans, to the disappointment of many Republicans and Democrats alike. Dogged by charges of anti-Semitism for posts..…
Omar's critics denounced the statement as playing into anti-Semitic that Jewish Americans are loyal to Israel over United States. Representative Liz Cheney, No House Republican, ers on Wednesday that Omar embodies vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitic, anti- Israel bigotry... ..…