{"id":1808736,"date":"2023-01-17T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808736"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:20:15","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-set-to-make-comeback-with-new-committee-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-set-to-make-comeback-with-new-committee-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene Set To Make Comeback With New Committee Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-set-to-make-comeback-with-new-committee-assignments%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=1808736&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-->\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, will be reelected to new committee positions. This marks a return after the House voted to remove her assignments in the last session.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the House GOP Steering Committee approved Greene&#8217;s appointment to the House Homeland Security Committee. This committee oversees the Homeland Security Department and is part of the powerful House Oversight Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3816612-marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-get-committee-assignments-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP steering board <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3816612-marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-get-committee-assignments-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of around 30 members<\/a> Also, Rep. Paul Gosar (R AZ) was elected to the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/11\/17\/paul-gosar-censured-house-violent-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censured and lost his committee assignments<\/a> A controversial video he shared online was sent to him by his former position on the House Natural Resources Committee (and Oversight Committee).<\/p>\n<p>The entire House GOP conference must approve these assignments. CNN\u2019s Melanie Zanona <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZanona\/status\/1615406024848216069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stressed the conference typically approves<\/a> Recommendations from the steering committee. Greene and Gosar, if confirmed by the Oversight Committee will join Chairman James Comer (R-KY), which has already been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-gop-committee-chairman-to-treasury-hand-over-info-on-biden-family-business-deals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begun inquiries<\/a> In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-accuses-republicans-of-playing-politics-over-classified-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">various controversies<\/a> surrounding President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The last session of Congress was Greene\u2019s freshman term. She quickly became a fiery conservative voice and a loyal ally to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021 the Democrat-led House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marjorie-greene-removed-from-committees-multiple-republicans-vote-to-remove-her\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to strip Greene of her assignments<\/a> on the Budget Committee and on Education and Labor to discuss statements made prior to her time in Congress, such as those regarding QAnon and school shooters. The resolution was passed by eleven Republicans, who voted with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese were words of the past, and these things do not represent me, they do not represent my district, and they do not represent my values,\u201d Greene made these remarks right before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker (Republican-California) issued a statement condemning Democrats&#8217; actions at that time. \u201cpartisan power grab regarding the committee assignments of the other party,\u201d but he also said he condemned Greene\u2019s past comments and met with the congresswoman to make it \u201cclear\u201d The position of the House Republican Conference in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy stated that Greene and Gosar would receive new seats in committees if Republicans win back the house in 2022&#8217;s midterm elections. Greene became a supporter and friend of McCarthy during the weeks leading to the vote for speaker. \u201cI\u2019ve asked for committee positions, but I\u2019m not doing it with a guaranteed deal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/12\/09\/marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-congress-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to Greene\u2019s office for comment on her new assignments.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is poised to return to the committee role as Greene and Gosar,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mccarthy-bounces-dems-swalwell-schiff-omar-from-key-house-committees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> indicated he plans to make\u00a0good on a promise<\/a> to bump three high-profile Democrats \u2014 Reps. Adam Schiff (CA), Eric Swalwell (CA), and Ilhan Omar (MN) \u2014 from perches on key committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is set to get new committee positions, marking a comeback after the House voted in the last session of Congress to remove her assignments over a series of inflammatory statements. The House GOP Steering Committee voted on Tuesday to give Greene a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1808739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7403,3754,4384,6202,4659,4653,8273,4656,6195],"class_list":["post-1808736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-assignments","tag-comeback","tag-committee","tag-daily","tag-greene","tag-marjorie","tag-set","tag-taylor","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}