'Infecting Capitol Hill': Mace faces bipartisan pushback in effort to punish Dem colleague
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Chad Pergram, Senior Congressional Correspondent for Fox News, reports that although Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) wants the House to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for what Mace described as "disgraceful remarks" about the assassination of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk, the controversial South Carolina congresswoman faces bipartisan resistance to her efforts.
On Monday, Mace announced a resolution to strip Omar of her committee assignments.
Immediately following Kirk's murder, Omar posted on X, "Political violence is absolutely unacceptable and indefensible. Unconscionable acts of violence should have no place in our country. Let’s pray for no more lives being lost to gun violence."
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Omar, who has faced multiple death threats from people who have since been convicted, also went on journalist Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo News Channel, where she said, "These people are full of s——” in reference to what she called Trump and Musk's "effed-up" weaponization of Kirk’s killing against the left.
Mace also wants the House to censure Omar, Pergram says on his X account, which is the second highest formal mode of discipline in the House.
"By triggering the resolution today, the House has the option of considering the plan immediately or later this week. Democrats may move to table, or kill, the resolution. If the House votes to do so, it’s done. But if the House fails to kill the resolution, the House must vote, up or down, to censure her," Pergram writes.
"The House could also upend the Mace resolution by voting to refer Omar to the Ethics Committee for further investigation. Both a motion to table or a vote to refer to committee prevent the House from taking a tough vote on a divisive issue," he explains.
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"Some Republicans would relish to get Democrats on the record voting to support Omar in light of the Kirk murder," Pergram states.
But it may not be so easy.
Fox News is told, Pergram says, that, while "members from both sides don’t agree with Omar’s remarks and her re-tweeting of an inflammatory video denouncing Kirk in profane terms . . . they also don’t believe that sanctioning a member contributes to diminishing the invective which is now infecting Capitol Hill."