Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to censure Rashida Tlaib for "leading an insurrection."
  • Tlaib addressed pro-Palestine protestors as they held a sit-in at a Capitol Hill office building.
  • 23 House Republicans joined with Democrats to table Greene's resolution.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib failed on Wednesday — in major part thanks to Tlaib's home-state Republican colleagues.

A majority of the Republican-led House voted to table the Georgia Republican's censure resolution, which accused the Michigan Democrat of being antisemitic, sympathizing with terrorists, and "leading an insurrection."

Twenty-three Republicans voted with every Democrat to table Greene's resolution

The Georgia congresswoman notably has her own history of antisemitic pronouncements and once suggested that Tlaib was not a legitimate member of Congress because she was sworn in with a Quran rather than a Bible.

The resolution relies on several mischaracterizations of Tlaib's past comments and positions, including suggesting that she feels a "calming feeling" when thinking of the Holocaust and characterizing her criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.

Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American in Congress, has indeed irked some of her Jewish colleagues by describing Israel as an apartheid state — a term employed by several international human rights organizations.

The resolution also characterizes a sit-in protest on Capitol Hill led by two Jewish anti-Zionist groups — IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace — as an "insurrection."

The October 19 protest included a large crowd outside the Capitol and a sit-in in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building. Tlaib spoke to the crowd outside.

While Republicans are often quick to criticize Tlaib, Greene's resolution apparently went too far for some of them, and a handful made their opposition clear in the days before the vote.

Notably, a disproportionate number of Republican votes to table the resolution came from Michigan Republicans.

Here are the 23 Republicans who voted to table Greene's resolution:

  1. Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota
  2. Rep Ken Buck of Colorado
  3. Rep. John Duarte of California
  4. Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina
  5. Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia
  6. Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
  7. Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
  8. Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan
  9. Rep. Darrell Issa of California
  10. Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota
  11. Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California
  12. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
  13. Rep. Tom McClintock of California
  14. Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia
  15. Rep. Max Miller of Ohio
  16. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks or Iowa
  17. Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan
  18. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
  19. Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia
  20. Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana
  21. Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio
  22. Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
  23. Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan
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