House Democrat gives Marjorie Taylor Greene a quick American history lesson

On Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the Home ground to advertise Modification No. 94, which aimed to prohibit “funds from getting used to take away any monument on land underneath the jurisdiction of the Division of the Inside.” This little bit of political theater was in response to the current melting down of a statue of American traitor Robert E. Lee, which had previously stood in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Greene’s modification was supported by Rep. Clay Higgins (a disgraced former sheriff)  and Rep. Ryan Zinke (a corrupt former Inside secretary, appointed by Donald Trump, who finally resigned). Zinke appeared confused as to what the modification he was supporting really protects. In line with him, it “solely pertains to monuments that commemorate the Founding Fathers.” Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine learn the modification again to Zinke, which describes “any monument,” and isn’t restricted to the Founding Fathers.

Then Greene gave a brief speech saying Democratic forces had been accusing Republicans of “ebook burning” when it was liberals who had been making an attempt to “destroy our nation’s historical past” by melting down the statue of Lee.

Pingree’s response was brief and candy:

So simply to clear up a few issues: My colleague talked about the “Founding Fathers.” Robert E. Lee was not really one of many Founding Fathers. He was a common of the Confederacy. That was the town of Charlottesville. That wasn’t a nationwide monument when that statue was eliminated. And I, I simply must say, I discover it wealthy that the celebration that has supported ebook banning in our libraries, rewriting curriculum, not speaking about our historical past over and over, is the very one that’s saying that we have now to usually hold painful monuments in locations the place they do injury, the place they intervene with individuals’s capacity to benefit from the explicit space that they are in, and go away it to the Division of Inside to have that discretion.

So if we will get into speaking about ebook banning and rewriting historical past, let’s have an sincere debate about it and discuss in regards to the variations between our two events on this. I oppose this modification and I yield again.

The Republican Occasion wasted America’s time by going with no Home speaker for greater than three weeks, and now they’re persevering with to waste America’s money and time by selling what Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer referred to as a “stunningly unserious” funding plan. Now, as a part of Republicans’ HR 4821 invoice—their funding plan for the Division of the Inside and diverse environmental companies—they’re selling petty amendments like Rep. Lauren Boebert’s profitable Modification No. 20, which might take cash away from the Environmental Safety Company as a result of it bothers her fossil gas donors, in addition to Greene’s foolish statue ban modification—which finally didn’t garner sufficient assist to make it into the appropriations invoice.

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