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January 18, 2023

Election Deniers Marjorie Taylor Greene & Paul Gosar to Join House Oversight Committee
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House Republicans have placed far-right election deniers Marjorie Taylor
Greene and Paul Gosar on the powerful House Oversight and Accountability
Committee. This comes two years after Democrats removed them from their
committee posts for calling for violence against Democrats on social
media. Greene, who once claimed there was an "Islamic invasion into our
government offices," will also serve on the Homeland Security Committee.
Gosar will also rejoin the Natural Resources Committee. In 2021, the
House censured him for posting an animated video on social media where
he murders Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacks President
Biden. A number of other members of the far-right Freedom Caucus also
received prominent committee posts.


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