These 23 House Republicans voted to sink Marjorie Taylor Greene's censure resolution accusing Rashida Tlaib of 'leading an insurrection'
Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to censure Rashida Tlaib, accusing her of "leading an insurrection."
Tlaib had addressed pro-Palestinian protesters as they held a sit-in at a Capitol Hill office building.
Twenty-three House Republicans joined Democrats to table Greene's resolution.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib failed on Wednesday — in part thanks to three of Tlaib's home-state Republican colleagues.
A majority of the Republican-led House voted to table the Georgia Republican's censure resolution, which accused the Michigan Democrat of being antisemitic, sympathizing with terrorists, and "leading an insurrection."
Twenty-three Republicans voted with every Democrat to table Greene's resolution.
The Georgia congresswoman notably has her own history of antisemitic pronouncements and once suggested that Tlaib was not a legitimate member of Congress because she was sworn in with a Quran rather than a Bible.
The resolution relied on several mischaracterizations of Tlaib's past comments and positions, including suggesting that she felt a "calming feeling" when thinking of the Holocaust and characterizing her criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American in Congress, has indeed irked some of her Jewish colleagues by describing Israel as an apartheid state — a term employed by several international human-rights organizations.
The resolution also characterized a sit-in protest on Capitol Hill led by two Jewish anti-Zionist groups — IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace — as an "insurrection."
The October 19 protest included a large crowd outside the Capitol and a sit-in in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building. Tlaib spoke to the crowd outside.
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While Republicans are often quick to criticize Tlaib, Greene's resolution apparently went too far for some of them, and a handful appeared to make their opposition clear in the days before the vote.
Notably, half of the Republicans in Michigan voted to table the resolution.
Here are the 23 Republicans who voted to table Greene's resolution:
Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota
Rep Ken Buck of Colorado
Rep. John Duarte of California
Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina
Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia
Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan
Rep. Darrell Issa of California
Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota
Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Rep. Tom McClintock of California
Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia
Rep. Max Miller of Ohio
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa
Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia
Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan
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