{"id":547124,"date":"2023-02-03T04:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mccarthy-notches-win-with-hard-fought-vote-to-oust-omar\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T04:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:02:45","slug":"mccarthy-notches-win-with-hard-fought-vote-to-oust-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-notches-win-with-hard-fought-vote-to-oust-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"#McCarthy notches win with hard-fought vote to oust Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a383109c17a3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a383109c17a3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-notches-win-with-hard-fought-vote-to-oust-omar\/#McCarthy_notches_win_with_hard-fought_vote_to_oust_Omar\" >McCarthy notches win with hard-fought vote to oust Omar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCarthy_notches_win_with_hard-fought_vote_to_oust_Omar\"><\/span>McCarthy notches win with hard-fought vote to oust Omar<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/mccarthykevin_020223ag8_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) chalked up a big victory on Thursday when Republicans rallied to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Omar, a frequent critic of Israel and its human rights record, has been a target of Republicans since her arrival on Capitol Hill in 2019, and McCarthy has vowed for years to remove her from the Foreign Affairs panel if Republicans flipped control of the House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Following through was tougher than he initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans controlling just a slim majority in the lower chamber \u2014 and a handful of GOP lawmakers balking at the notion that one party would control the other\u2019s committee posts \u2014 party leaders had delayed the vote indefinitely. As recently as Wednesday, the resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to be dead in the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, McCarthy spoke with each of the holdouts one-by-one \u2014 some by phone, some in person in his office \u2014\u00a0in a methodical effort to alleviate their concerns and flip their votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the bill hit the floor Thursday afternoon, the results of his lobbying became clear: Every GOP lawmaker supported the measure, except for Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), who voted present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expulsion prompted\u00a0accusations from Democrats\u00a0that Omar, one of just three Muslims in Congress, was targeted as \u201cpolitical revenge\u201d for the two Republicans \u2014\u00a0Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) \u2014\u00a0who were booted from their committees in the last Congress. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.)\u00a0said\u00a0the move was \u201cblatantly Islamophobic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For McCarthy, however, it marked a major triumph, demonstrating that he can unite a restive and discordant conference behind controversial proposals even after he was bruised, just weeks ago, by the humiliating balloting process that nearly denied him the Speaker\u2019s gavel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But he is sure to face much tougher legislative fights in the months ahead, including a high-stakes battle with President Biden over raising the debt ceiling and preventing a government default.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0After Thursday\u2019s expulsion vote, McCarthy did not dwell on the process that led to it, but amplified his argument that Omar\u2019s past comments \u2014 some of which were deemed antisemitic by members of both parties \u2014 made her a national security risk on a committee with jurisdiction over U.S. foreign policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt puts America in jeopardy, and I\u2019m not going to do that under my watch,\u201d McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The win lends McCarthy and Republicans some momentum after a rocky start to the year. After predicting a huge red wave heading into November\u2019s midterms, only to eke out a tiny majority, they then stumbled through a marathon, five-day Speaker\u2019s vote \u2014 the longest since before the Civil War \u2014\u00a0that exposed deep divisions between the various factions of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Republicans\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ahead-of-spending-fight-delays-show-perils-for-narrow-gop-majority-11674680016\">have struggled to move<\/a>\u00a0some of their most prominent agenda items to the floor, including a proposal designed to curb migration at the southern border, which they hoped would be among their first victories under their new majority. Instead, internal disagreements between two Texas Republicans \u2014\u00a0Reps. Chip Roy and Tony Gonzales \u2014\u00a0have left the bill languishing in committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we deal with immigration, a lot of members have a lot of different positions. Both of those members from Texas have a lot to say,\u201d McCarthy acknowledged Thursday. \u201cI know members are working together to try to find a place to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Amid the difficult month, securing Omar\u2019s expulsion from Foreign Affairs was a bright spot for McCarthy and the GOP.\u00a0But it didn\u2019t come easily.<\/p>\n<p>When GOP leaders first made moves to bring the resolution to the floor in late January, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.)\u00a0announced her opposition\u00a0in no uncertain terms, while Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) \u2014 who had\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/12-13-2022\/mace-mcarthy-committee-removal-democrats\/\">declared her clear objections<\/a>\u00a0in December \u2014\u00a0also expressed misgivings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) added to McCarthy\u2019s headaches on Friday, when he\u00a0announced\u00a0that he would also vote to keep Omar on the committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The message from the three dissenters was virtually identical: They had all opposed the Democrats\u2019 effort to boot Greene and Gosar from their committees, and they would extend their principled objection to the Omar vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo wrongs do not make a right,\u201d Spartz said last week.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy got to work, signaling he was ready to \u201cadd due process language\u201d to the resolution, according to Spartz. It was enough to flip the vote of the Indiana holdout, and she announced her support for the resolution on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy then spoke with Buck by phone on Wednesday morning, when the Speaker promised the Colorado Republican that he\u2019d work to reform the process governing committee dismissals, according to Buck. He, too, flipped to yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mace huddled with McCarthy in the Speaker\u2019s office on Thursday morning and emerged with the same message: McCarthy had vowed a \u201ccommitment,\u201d she said, to reforms that would ensure members would be referred to the House Ethics Committee before there are any floor votes to s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> them of their committee seats. She, too, was on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0vote Thursday\u00a0was 218 to 211, along strict party lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Afterwards, McCarthy\u00a0announced, in vague terms, that he was ready to reform the process, saying he\u2019ll form a bipartisan group to \u201cclarify the rules\u201d surrounding committee evictions, for this Congress and those to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the definition exactly what all that\u2019s going to mean,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that should be clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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