On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said a full resolution to combat anti-Semitism should have been introduced, but a rare bill to clarify mining regulations has since been introduced. He received a surprising rebuke for the procedural rejection.
The incident comes hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced a forced vote to expel Mr. Johnson. There was little to indicate that he had a firm grip on the helm.
The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-Fla.), would allow the United Nations to help the Department of Education enforce federal anti-discrimination laws. It would require the use of the proposed definition of anti-Semitism. Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Although most House members would agree that anti-Semitism is wrong, the hastily introduced bill sparked a firestorm.
Anti-Semitism is wrong, but I believe today that in 2023 anti-Semitism could make Christians who believed the gospel that Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews guilty of anti-Semitism. I will not vote for the Human Rights Awareness Act (HR 6090).
Read the text of the bill… pic.twitter.com/Y0eeOiVfnw
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 1, 2024
The vote was 320-91, with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting no.
Greene, who opposed the bill, said the bill “could make Christians guilty of anti-Semitism who believed the gospel that Jesus was handed over to Herod by the Jews to be crucified.” . Other Republicans opposed the bill for similar reasons, forcing Mr. Johnson to his knees in what should have been an easy victory.
Did the House just make parts of the Bible illegal?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 2, 2024
yes. New Testament. https://t.co/h5o2eDaKTN
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 2, 2024
Prime Minister Johnson has instructed committee chairs to focus on combating anti-Semitism in the coming months, a pivot away from efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.
Minutes later, Mr. Johnson was dealt another blow regarding the Mining Regulatory Transparency Act. Democrats were able to secure enough Republicans with a procedural vote to send the bill back to committee with a motion to repass. This is the first successful bill of its kind since 2020, and the first in the Republican-controlled House since 2004.
The recommitment motion is ostensibly a procedural vote, but is actually used as one of the few political wedges available to the House minority party. The vote allows the minority party to force the House to consider the bill with revised language, sending it back to its original committee and effectively killing it before a vote for final passage.
Politically effective recommitment motions typically include tricky political fixes aimed at targeting vulnerable members of the majority to prevent legislation from passing or to provide fodder for campaign advertising. ing.
Republicans used recommitment motions in 2020 and 2021 so effectively that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) amended the rules to weaken the procedural tool.
In this case, Democrats in the House of Representatives would ban mining companies from operating on public lands if the Secretary of the Interior determines that the organization’s parent company is “incorporated, located, or controlled.” It forced the House to vote on an amendment banning it. It’s a hostile country. ”
It passed by a vote of 210 to 204. Conservative Congressmen Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Dan Bishop (R-NC), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Bob Good (R-Va.) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-Ariz.) all voted “yes.”
this is
– For the first time since 2020, a (re)commitment motion was agreed.
– For the first time since 2004, a (re)commitment motion was agreed under a Republican majority.
– As far as I know, this is the first time since 1992 that a straight motion to (re)commitment has been agreed.https://t.co/KvVwThoyaD— Ringwiss (@ringwiss) May 1, 2024
Bradley Jay is Breitbart News’ Capitol Hill correspondent. Follow him on X/Twitter. @BradleyAJay.
