Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) is pushing to revoke the committee assignments of the House Democrats who are accused of storming an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark last week.
Carter introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would remove the assignments for Reps. Rob Menendez (D-NJ), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), who are being accused by the Homeland Security Department of storming the ICE prison in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
The resolution, obtained by the Washington Examiner and first shared with Fox News Digital, calls for Watson Coleman to be removed from the Appropriations Committee, Menendez from the Energy and Commerce Committee, and McIver from the Homeland Security and Small Business committees.
“If we fail to uphold basic standards of decorum, then we fail this body, our country, and the American people,” Carter told the Washington Examiner. “This resolution is necessary because it preserves the rule of law and shows our brave law enforcement agents that we stand with them, not the radical left.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to Menendez, McIver, and Watson Coleman for comment.
DHS said in a release on Friday that as a bus of detainees was entering through the prison gate, protesters, including the House Democrats, “stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility.”
The House Democrats have denied the agency’s characterization of the incident, with Watson Coleman’s office accusing DHS of “blatantly lying” and Menendez casting ICE’s actions to control the protest as an “act of intimidation.”
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was with the House Democrats, was arrested after he “committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself” from the scene, according to DHS.
The move from Carter comes days after he announced he is running for Senate to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). Carter may face fellow House Republicans in what is expected to be a competitive GOP primary, including Reps. Mike Collins (R-GA) and Rich McCormick (R-GA). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was widely speculated to be launching a bid, announced last week she would not run for Senate.
Carter announced his campaign after Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), another widely speculated contender for the race, declined to seek the Republican nomination. This was a blow to Georgia and national Republicans, who believed the governor could be a credible threat to Ossoff.
The House Republican is currently facing one other challenger, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King, who announced on Monday. King is the first Hispanic person to be elected to a statewide post in Georgia and served as a member of the National Guard and the Atlanta Police Department.
Removing representatives from their committee assignments is a rare consequence, but has been done in recent years.
When Democrats held the majority, they removed conservative firebrands Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) from their committees.
Greene was removed from her posts on the Budget, Education, and Labor committees for incendiary comments and apparent support of violence against Democrats. Gosar was removed from the Oversight and Natural Resources committees after posting an animated video of harm coming to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed now-Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) from their posts on the House Intelligence Committee, Swalwell for his role in investigating President Donald Trump for alleged ties to Russia, and Schiff for his role in the impeachment proceedings of Trump, in January 2023. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee for past antisemitic statements a month later.
After the House voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for his disruptive behavior at Trump’s joint address to Congress, both the Freedom Caucus and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said they would introduce resolutions to strip Green of his committee assignments. That has not yet occurred.
Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.
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