Marjorie Taylor Greene ousted from House education committee

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, a controversial freshman member of the House of Representatives, has been tossed off both the Committee on Education and Labor and the Budget Committee Thursday.

The vote to remove Greene from her committee appointments, 230-199, was largely along party lines, although 11 Republicans voted with Democrats, according to the Washington Post.

Top Democrats, the National Education Association and anti-gun activists have called for Greene to be removed from the committees for spreading lies and conspiracy theories about school shootings, supporting the  execution of prominent Democratic politicians and for supporting the theories of QAnon, a conspiracy theory group that supports former President Donald Trump.

Greene has endorsed describing the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, and in Parkland, Florida in 2018 as staged or “false flag” operations aiming to build support for gun control.

On Wednesday House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., refused to remove Greene from her committee appointments, despite calls from Democrats and others.