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3 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again trying to end all business for the day in the House. It's 9:30 in the morning.
The House is voting today on a major ethics and election integrity bill, H.R. 1, that would strengthen ethics requirements on federal officeholders, increase election security, end partisan gerrymandering, protect Americans' voting rights, and help get big money out of politics.
Votes are still coming in but clearly many Republicans in the House would rather stop working for the day at 10:00 in the morning than pass a bill that strengthens Congress' ethics rules and reduces the influence of money in politics:
Greene once again says she is trying to adjourn the House to "let us think" about the bills coming up for a vote today.

Most of us are able to think about things like legislation without having to stop doing our jobs for the day.
176 Republicans have now voted to stop work for the day before 10:30 am EST, a time at which much of America has not yet even begun the working day
The motion to adjourn was just defeated, here is the final vote. 182 House Republicans voted to end business for the day at 10:30 a.m. rather than vote on a bill that would help get big money out of politics.

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A late night observation, as the House debates the American Rescue Plan.

My Republican colleagues keep justifying their opposition to this desperately needed, wildly popular relief bill by repeating one particular lie.

It's about state and local funding. Here's the deal--
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They couldn't be more wrong. States and localities are on the front lines of this pandemic and need help. 2/
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25 Feb
Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again trying to stop all House business for the day in order to derail the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ Americans from workplace discrimination. Yesterday Greene went on a transphobic rant and attacked the child of one of our colleagues.
Yes it is irritating to have House business ground to a halt by a bigot who is desperate for attention.

But Greene's attacks on trans Americans, including the daughter of our colleague whom she attacked yesterday, matter a lot more than the inconvenience to Members of Congress.
Update: a day after Marjorie Taylor Greene bullied our colleague's daughter, almost every House Republican is supporting her transphobic attacks and voting to end House business for the day to block the Equality Act.
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24 Feb
Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to adjourn the House and end official business for the day because she opposes the Equality Act, which would prohibit workplace discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. She just made a long, bigoted speech on the House floor attacking trans people.
Update: every House Republican who has voted so far backed Marjorie Taylor Greene in trying to adjourn the House to block a bill protecting LGBTQ Americans.

Greene made it very clear that this was about bigotry against trans people. House Republicans are standing with her.
Yesterday Marjorie Taylor Greene equated protecting LGBTQ Americans from workplace discrimination with "protecting pedophiles." Today she gave a speech attacking trans people laced with bigotry, then tried to stop all House business for the day.

Here's how the vote is going now:
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3 Feb
Republicans dismiss Greene's actions as "crazy comments" made "before she took office."

They are wrong.

Greene supported political violence and endorsed the *killing* of American leaders.

While in office she hasn't denied this, nor has she taken responsibility or apologized.
All of my Republican colleagues responding to this with whataboutism are embarrassing themselves.

Everyone who works here can and must agree - especially after January 6 - that political violence is beyond the pale.

Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly endorsed political violence.
It has been a week since these comments were uncovered and much longer since they were made.

Greene has had plenty of time to take responsibility and admit that what she said and did was wrong.

Has she done that? No.
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2 Feb
In the 4 years since @tedlieu and I first raised concerns about the security clearances of Jared Kushner, and later Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's abuses have shown how badly reform is needed.

Today we introduced the Security Clearance Review Act to fix it.
beyer.house.gov/news/documents…
This goes back to early 2017, when reports began to emerge about Jared Kushner's secret meetings with Russian officials, which he then claimed he had "omitted" from his security clearance paperwork. We subsequently raised similar questions about Ivanka Trump's security clearance.
Eventually the truth came out: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had been flagged for numerous security issues, but the recommendations that their clearances be denied were overruled by Donald Trump -- over the objections of his Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly.
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2 Feb
Another Trump loss in court, this time with huge implications for public health: last night a federal judge struck down the Trump EPA's "Censored Science Rule" -- a major victory for scientific integrity, environmental protection, and the EPA's work to ensure public safety.
Years ago Republicans then in the majority on the House Science Committee proposed a way to undercut EPA's regulations protecting public health by weakening the scientific basis behind the agency's rulemaking process under the guise of "transparency."

Scientists hated it.
Four years ago this week, the lead proponent of the idea, the House GOP Chair of the Science Committee at the time, held our first science hearing in the Trump Administration on this rule. He titled the hearing, "Make The EPA Great Again." It was a disaster. I wore a hat.
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