{"id":571382,"date":"2023-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/greene-silencing-leads-to-new-pledges-of-civility\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:00:00","slug":"greene-silencing-leads-to-new-pledges-of-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/greene-silencing-leads-to-new-pledges-of-civility\/","title":{"rendered":"#Greene silencing leads to new pledges of civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/taylorgeenemarjorie_041823ag02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The silencing of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a liar in a hearing has led to a pledge for a more civil House Homeland Security Committee going forward \u2014 a standard lawmakers may struggle to meet as they gear up for the secretary\u2019s impeachment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Mayorkas <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 before Congress this week, Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) accused him of intentional disruption at the border and said his answers to prior questions show \u201cincompetence.\u201d Rep. Clay Higgins told Mayorkas it was \u201cshameful what you brought upon our country.\u201d Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) accused him of being smug.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Numerous lawmakers accused him of lying before Congress \u2014 an argument both Mayorkas and Democrats refute.<\/p>\n<p>But while others accused Mayorkas of being dishonest, Greene on Wednesday explicitly labeled him a liar, something Green determined violated House rules on impugning someone\u2019s character.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A hearing that began with a fiery opening statement from Green ended with a call to \u201cdial the rhetoric down in the country and apparently in the committee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to despise someone because they disagree with us. We don\u2019t have to disparage someone because they disagree with us,\u201d he said in closing the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>It was a commitment he made after a sidebar with ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who repeatedly described the panel\u2019s discourse that day as unbecoming for a committee with such a serious jurisdiction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether that moment can be met already appears in doubt for a committee that contains many members eager to impeach Mayorkas \u2014 a process that involves holding him personally responsible for the Biden administration\u2019s approach to the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Green was chastised early in the meeting by Democrats, who pointed to a story in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/18\/us\/republicans-mark-green-mayorkas-impeachment.html\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reporting he told donors to \u201cget the popcorn\u201d ready ahead of Wednesday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>And Republicans on the panel have offered mixed assessments of whether they believe the tone of the hearing was inappropriate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greene called the decision to silence her for the rest of the hearing unfair, noting that numerous Republican speakers before her accused Mayorkas of lying to Congress, even if they did not label him as a liar directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThese are all impugning his character also, which is what they claimed were the rules. I think silencing me was extremely unfair. And I think it showed weakness from Republicans on the committee,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) said calling someone a liar is \u201cpoor form,\u201d but that doing so is justified in regards to Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been provoked to engage with Secretary Mayorkas in very severe terms,\u201d he said of some of his colleagues. \u201cAnd there\u2019s a reason for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), however, suggested the committee members take a softer approach in their language if not in their stance, pointing to specific passages from the Bible that guide him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can be unwavering without compromise, and also be gentle and reasonable. And so it hangs on my wall. It\u2019s hidden in my heart. And that\u2019s who I want to be as a legislator,\u201d he said, pointing to James 3:17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can disagree with someone and disagree with them heartily. And that\u2019s what makes our nation great is we have raucous debates, right? But I also want people to know that I love them and that the way I behold them in my subconscious is not through hatred, it is through love towards them as an individual who\u2019s made in the image of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Mayorkas is no stranger to heated rhetoric. At one point last year during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, one lawmaker\u00a0compared him to Benedict Arnold, suggesting he was a traitor to the country. And numerous senators this week likewise attacked his character, with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asking whether he had \u201can ounce of human compassion\u201d about the situation at the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At an event Friday, Mayorkas lamented the approach of lawmakers who criticize his character.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not easy to listen to,\u201d he said of the insults. \u201cThey also have ramifications that I wish individuals in positions of leadership would consider.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI am fundamentally \u2014 fundamentally though \u2014 I\u2019m impervious to them. Because I may make some mistakes. My decisions may be mistaken. Some may disagree with them, but I have 100 percent confidence in the integrity of my decision,\u201d Mayorkas said in response to a question from The Hill during an event at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats, meanwhile, have sought to dismiss the budding impeachment argument from the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can disagree with him on policy, but that is not a high crime and misdemeanor, nor does it in any way violate the Constitution and has no grounds for impeachment,\u201d Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said while many colleagues offered similar remarks to Greene, her comments have received the most attention, undercutting the effort to focus on Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think most of the Republicans are saying the same thing. I think most Republicans were calling [the] secretary names, belittling him and not allowing him to speak, insinuating that he was lying \u2014 all things which are false,\u201d Garcia told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans are focused \u2014 and they were clear \u2014 even in the chairman\u2019s comments at the fundraiser that he had, that he expected today to be a circus, he expected today to be kind of a made-for-TV event, which is how they planned it. And I think it backfired on them,\u201d he said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Green has said he was misquoted in the Times article, though he did not specify how, and noted the impeachment process will ultimately fall to the House Judiciary Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 20-minute delay in challenging Greene\u2019s comments was a source of embarrassment for some on the committee. Thompson warned the division on display is poor signaling to adversaries who keep tabs on internal dynamics in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur charge as a committee is to keep the homeland safe from foreign as well as domestic terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if they see a committee tasked with that responsibility acting like we did today, you\u2019re saying, \u2018Well, look, we don\u2019t have to worry anymore since it\u2019s going off the rails.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green told The Hill that going forward committee members need to \u201cjust attack the problem. You don\u2019t attack the person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he sees the issue as one on both sides of the aisle, adding that \u201cThere better not be any of either side breaking the rules of decorum,\u201d in a nod to a sign brought by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) criticizing Greene\u2019s effort to defund the FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greene made a similar argument, saying Thompson chaired a committee that impugned her character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBennie Thompson has used his position, especially his chairmanship on the Jan. 6 committee, to literally call Republicans names every single day impugning our character, me specifically,\u201d she said, adding that Democrats have called her an insurrectionist.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) said he appreciated the efforts at the end of the hearing to \u201crein it back in,\u201d but said whether Green can ultimately do so remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt varies from different Republican members. I think for some of them, this is the raison d\u2019etre. They\u2019re going for more quotes, more tweets, more sales, more dollars raised on the internet. They\u2019re not going to change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chairman and some of the other members, I hope that they will step back from that precipice and we can actually get back to doing some reasonable work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\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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