{"id":1024381,"date":"2021-11-17T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024381"},"modified":"2021-11-17T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:43:49","slug":"house-censures-paul-gosar-strips-him-of-committee-seats-over-ocasio-cortez-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-censures-paul-gosar-strips-him-of-committee-seats-over-ocasio-cortez-video\/","title":{"rendered":"House Censures Paul Gosar, Strips Him Of Committee Seats Over Ocasio-Cortez Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-censures-paul-gosar-strips-him-of-committee-seats-over-ocasio-cortez-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House formally censured and stripped Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of his committee&nbsp;assignments&nbsp;Wednesday for posting a video depicting him killing New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Every Democrat and two Republicans \u2014 Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois \u2014 voted for the resolution, costing Gosar his seats on the House Oversight and Reform and Natural Resources Committees. Gosar, who posted the photoshopped&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/09\/nancy-pelosi-paul-gosar-anime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anime video<\/a>&nbsp;on Nov. 7, deleted it days later but did not apologize publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Gosar served on the Oversight Committee alongside Ocasio-Cortez. The censure&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/BILLS-117hres789ih\/pdf\/BILLS-117hres789ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resolution<\/a> was led by California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cut and dry,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor ahead of the vote. \u201cDoes anyone in this chamber find this behavior acceptable? Would you allow depictions of violence against women, against colleagues, would you allow that in your home?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not acceptable there, why should it be accepted here?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Gosar is the first House lawmaker to be censured since former New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel in 2010 for multiple ethics violations. The Arizona Republican is the first to lose his committees since Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/05\/11-republicans-voted-strip-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee\/\">stripped<\/a> of hers in February for multiple remarks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/27\/marjorie-taylor-greene-harassed-parkland-survivor\/\">harassing<\/a> Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/26\/marjorie-taylor-greene-fbi-agents-democrats-executed\/\">\u201cliking\u201d calls on Facebook<\/a> to execute Pelosi and blaming <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/29\/marjorie-taylor-greene-rothschild-family-anti-semitic-california-fire-cancel-culture\/\">Jewish space lasers<\/a> for deadly wildfires in the western United States. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/11\/democrats-push-censure-paul-gosar-defended-anime-video-killing-aoc-attacking-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Push To Censure Paul Gosar After He Defended Anime Video Of Him Killing Ocasio-Cortez, Attacking Biden)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7322954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7322954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walks through the Capitol. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gosar did not answer reporters\u2019 questions Wednesday regarding whether he regretted posting the video, but defended himself on the House floor. \u201cI do not espouse violence towards anyone. I never have. It was not my purpose to make anyone upset,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this cartoon, some in current Congress suggest I should be punished,\u201d Gosar added. \u201cI have said decisively there is no threat in the cartoon other than the threat that immigration poses to our country. And no threat was intended by my staff or me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the vote, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Democrats of abusing their power, noting inflammatory comments that some had made in recent years. \u201cThe speaker is burning down the House on her way out the door,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however, said ahead of the vote that censuring and stripping Gosar of his committees had to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot have a member joking about murdering each other or threatening the President of the United States,\u201d Pelosi said on the floor. \u201cIt is a sad day for the House of Representatives but a necessary day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House formally censured and stripped Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of his committee\u00a0assignments\u00a0Wednesday for posting a video depicting him killing New York Democratic Rep. 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