Wyoming Republican U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman voted with 213 other House members Wednesday to censure Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar and strip her of her committee assignments.
While the measure ultimately failed by a single vote — and after four Republicans crossed the aisle against the censure — Hageman said it’s an example of holding people accountable for how they act and what they say.
In this case, Omar’s controversial comments about Charlie Kirk came about a week after he was gunned down at an event on a Utah college campus.
Omar reposted a video that called out Kirk as a “reprehensible human being” and opined on a Substack podcast in a way that many Republicans took as a veiled way of saying Kirk was responsible for his death.
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