Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar get committee assignments - CNN

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joined astatine  near  by Rep. Paul Gosar astatine  the Capitol.

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Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona person been fixed committee assignments for the caller Congress, aft being booted from their committees by Democrats and immoderate Republicans for their incendiary remarks, sources told CNN.

The House GOP Steering Committee connected Tuesday agreed to spot Greene connected the House Homeland Security Committee, which has jurisdiction implicit the borderline and volition apt play a relation successful perchance impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

And Gosar got a spot connected the House Committee connected Natural Resources, wherever helium antecedently served.

Both decisions were made unanimously by the steering panel, sources told CNN, which is stocked with members who are adjacent to and a portion of House GOP leadership. The committee rosters volition inactive request to beryllium ratified by the full House GOP, but typically the league approves immoderate the Steering Committee recommends.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has agelong vowed to enactment Greene and Gosar backmost connected committees, portion helium has pledged to footwear immoderate House Democrats disconnected of theirs.

The House voted successful February 2021 to region Greene from her committee assignments pursuing incendiary and convulsive past statements including that she repeatedly indicated enactment for executing salient Democratic politicians before being elected to Congress.

In November 2021, the House voted to censure Gosar and region him from his committees aft helium posted a photoshopped anime video to societal media showing him appearing to termination Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden.

McCarthy has repeatedly cited Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, some of California, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of examples of Democratic lawmakers whom helium would region from their committee assignments. Schiff and Swalwell service connected the House Intelligence Committee, portion Omar serves connected the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

This communicative has been updated with further developments Tuesday.

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