GOP Rep Files To Strip Democrats Of Their Committees For Singing “We Shall Overcome” After Censure Vote

March 7, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Hill reports:

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), accusing him of being a “complete and total fraud” over his vow to remove Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and others from committee assignments.

Ogles said Thursday that he is looking to strip some of his Democratic colleagues from their posts after they sang a song in support of Green on the House floor. The Texas Democrat was censured over his protest of President Trump’s Tuesday night speech to Congress.

On Thursday, as Green stood in the House chamber, some of his fellow Democrats surrounded him when he started singing “We Shall Overcome.” Johnson once again called for the members to maintain decorum. Ogles, shortly after, said he is “drafting privileged resolutions to remove each of them from their committees.”

Here’s Jeffries’ full statement:

I’m here in the office. Just finished up a telephone town hall meeting with my dynamic sister, our Attorney General Tish James. And my team informs me that some far right extremists have introduced a resolution to try to throw Democratic Members of the House off of our committees.

That resolution is going nowhere. You ain’t throwing no one off of any single committee. These people are malignant clowns.

Andy Ogles is a fraud. A complete and total fraud. You aren’t throwing anyone off of any committee in the House of Representatives. Don’t make me expose you to folks who don’t know you.

That last line! 

In late January, the DOJ dropped its criminal probe into Ogles over reports that he falsely claimed to have loaned his campaign $320,000 of his own money. Shortly after his election, Ogles was exposed for lying about his education and work experience. Ogles has introduced a bill that would authorize Trump (but not Obama) to seek a third term. He has also blamed the fatal airliner crash in Washington DC on diversity efforts by the airline.



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