House to vote Wednesday to censure Gosar, remove him from Oversight panel
The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution to censure Rep.
Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and kick him off the Oversight and Reform Committee for posting an anime video that depicted him violently attacking Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and
President Biden.
The move, confirmed by a source familiar with the plan, would make Gosar just the 24th House member to be censured in the chamber's history and the first in more than a decade.
Gosar currently serves on the Oversight and Reform panel with Ocasio-Cortez. The resolution would not take away his other assignment on the House Natural Resources Committee.
The Arizona Republican ultimately deleted the anime video last week following the backlash over its depiction of violence against two of the nation’s most prominent Democrats at a time when lawmakers face unprecedented threats — most notably the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Gosar
defended the video earlier Tuesday during a closed-door House GOP conference meeting and claimed that he hadn’t seen it before it was posted to his Twitter account last week.
He also sought to clarify that he doesn’t support violence against political opponents. Last week, Gosar claimed that the video was meant to be “symbolic” of the debate over immigration and that Ocasio-Cortez represented “Democrats’ open border amnesty agenda.”
House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Tuesday after the meeting that “it was not [Gosar’s] intent to ever harm anybody.”
The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and take away his committee assignments for posting an anime video that depicted him violently attacking Rep.
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