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- 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.
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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:
- Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota
- Rep Ken Buck of Colorado
- Rep. John Duarte of California
- Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina
- Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia
- Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
- Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
- Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan
- Rep. Darrell Issa of California
- Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota
- Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California
- Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
- Rep. Tom McClintock of California
- Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia
- Rep. Max Miller of Ohio
- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks or Iowa
- Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan
- Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
- Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia
- Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana
- Rep. Michael Turner of Ohio
- Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
- Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan