Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is making a comeback by being assigned to new committees after the House opted to pull her assignments for a series of inflammatory statements.
According to The Hill, the House GOP Steering Committee approved Greene’s membership on the powerful House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. This committee oversees the Department of Homeland Security.
After being censured and removed from his committee assignments for uploading a confrontational video on social media, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) was returned to his positions on the House Natural Resources Committee and the Oversight Committee by the GOP steering panel of around 30 members.
In the end, these nominations and appointments still need to be approved by the House GOP conference as a whole. In a CNN report, Melanie Zanona mentioned that the conference often takes ideas from the steering committee. Several controversies involving Vice President Joe Biden will be investigated by the Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY) if Greene and Gosar are authorized.
The most recent congressional session was Greene’s last of his first term in office. As a staunch supporter of then-President Trump and a conservative firebrand, she shot into popularity quickly.
Greene’s statements before her election to Congress concerning QAnon and school shootings caused the Democratic-controlled House to vote in February 2021 to remove her from her posts on the Budget Committee and the Committee on Education and Labor. Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill.
Moments before the vote, Greene said, “These were the language of the past, and these things do not reflect me, do not represent my district, and do not represent my ideals.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was quoted at the time by Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as saying that Democrats were engaging in a “partisan power grab over the committee assignments of the other party.” McCarthy said that he spoke with Greene to make it “clear” where the House Republican Conference stood on the matter and that he rejected her past statements.
McCarthy continued by saying that both Greene and Gosar would be assigned to new committee posts if the Republicans won back the House in the 2022 midterm elections. It was widely known that Greene was a McCarthy supporter in the weeks leading up to the vote. ‘I have requested committee positions, but I am not doing so with a promised agreement,’ she told Axios.
The Daily Wire spoke with Greene’s office seeking a statement about her expanded role.
McCarthy has made it clear that he plans to make good on his promise to remove three high-profile Democrats from committee seats, including Representatives Adam Schiff (CA), Eric Swalwell (CA), and Ilhan Omar (MN), as Greene and Gosar prepare to resume their prior roles.