Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, dismissed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s resolution to censure progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., as \u2018feckless\u2019 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The resolution led by Greene, R-Ga., was killed when 22 Republicans and all House Democrats voted to table it before it could be voted on. The final tally was 222 votes to 186.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Rep. Rashida Tlaib has repeatedly made outrageous remarks toward Israel and the Jewish people. Her conduct is unbecoming of a member of Congress and certainly worthy of condemnation \u2014 if not censure,\u2019 Roy began in a statement provided Wednesday to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
\u2018However, tonight\u2019s feckless resolution to censure Tlaib was deeply flawed and made legally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an \u2018insurrection.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He continued, \u2018I voted to table the resolution. In January 2021, the legal term insurrection was stretched and abused by many following the events at the Capitol. We should not continue to perpetuate claims of \u2018insurrection\u2019 at the Capitol and we should not abuse the term now.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Greene had earlier released a list of the Republicans who voted to table the censure and derided them as \u2018feckless.\u2019<\/p>\n
In her bill to censure Tlaib over her participation in a massive Israel-Gaza ceasefire protest on Capitol Hill, during which hundreds of demonstrators were arrested in the Cannon House Office building, Greene repeatedly referred to the protest as an \u2018insurrection.\u2019<\/p>\n
The House vote Wednesday that killed the resolution has led to open war between hardliners in the GOP conference.<\/p>\n
Greene hit back at Roy\u2019s explanation in an X post on Thursday morning: \u2018You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib.\u2019<\/p>\n
Roy mocked Greene when asked for a response later that morning.<\/p>\n
\u2018Tell her to go chase so-called Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on that sort of thing,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Greene again posted about Roy on X late on Thursday morning, challenging his pushback on her use of the word \u2018insurrection.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Until you force the enemies to live by the same rules, they\u2019re going to keep stomping our faces in the pavement,\u2019 she said. \u2018Chip Roy will be reciting his powdered wig soliloquies as Americans are marched to the firing squads.\u2019<\/p>\n