NEW: MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE @RepMTG is increasingly becoming a liability for her GOP colleagues due to a string of controversies that have thrown the conference off message and led to repudiations by Republican leaders.
.@RepJahanaHayes, fmr Nat'l Teach of Year, is circulating letter calling on @GOPLeader to boot @mtgreenee off the Education Committee after she supported false conspiracy theory claiming Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax.
Hayes reps Sandy Hook and Newtown.
The internet sleuths are just getting started digging into @mtgreenee's digital trail. Today, @mmfa revealed MTG penned a 2018 FB post espousing a wild and false conspiracy theory that deadly wildfires in CA, McCarthy's home state, had been caused by a laser from space.
In a statement, Rep. @mtgreenee said today she is not backing down:
MTG "liked" FB posts calling for execution of @SpeakerPelosi and for Obama, Hillary and FBI agents to be hanged. But so far, no movement toward booting her off committee.
GOP lawmaker reminds me: Remember when @CongHuelskamp was ousted from committees for taking a bad vote
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Capitol Police chief apologizes, admits to department's failures in Jan. 6 Capitol riot thehill.com/homenews/house…
Approps Chair @rosadelauro on today's hearing on the 1/6 Capitol attack:
"[T]here is the disturbing matter of how the law enforcement response to peaceful Black Lives Matter protests was so much more stringent than the response to this dangerous threat."
After today’s closed-door hearing on 1/6 attack, Rep. @RodneyDavis, top R on House Admin, calls for public hearings on the Capitol insurrection:
“Closed-door briefing with selectively leaked information is not the next step in addressing this issue”
House passes resolution calling on Pence to assemble Cabinet and invoke 25th Amendment.
Rep. Kinzinger is only Republican to join the Democrats.
Impeachment vote tomorrow
Jamie @HerreraBeutler (R-Wash.) becomes the 5th Republican to back impeachment.
“The President attacked Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter while Pence was in a secure room having fled from the mob that had breached the Senate floor threatening to hang him” GOP @HerreraBeutler
CHENEY places blames squarely on TRUMP for 1/6 assault on Capitol:
"The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President."
CHENEY says it's clear TRUMP could have sent in National Guard to stop the violence and chose not to:
"THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GREATER BETRAYAL BY A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF HIS OFFICE AND HIS OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION."
NEW SECURITY MEASURES for the House floor: Magnetometers erected at chamber entrances after 1/6 Capitol insurrection, per acting sergeant at arms
NEW: PELOSI implementing fines for members who refuse to wear masks:
$500 fine for first offense. $2,500 for second office. Fines will be deducted from Member pay (no use of campaign funds or MRA for fines).
House Office Building Commission will be immediately considering the implementation of a similar fine system for mask wearing non-compliance in the House Office Buildings and house side of the U.S. Capitol Building.