Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘surprised and angered’ after being silenced at hearing
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Green ordered a series of incendiary statements by the second-term congresswoman to be “taken down,” or officially stricken from the hearing’s official record, after she broke House rules by calling Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” while questioning him on the Biden administration’s border policies. After a prior motion to silence her for accusing California Democrat Eric Swalwell of having carried on “a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy” was tabled by the panel’s GOP majority, Ms Greene laid into Mr Mayorkas with a series of accusations about his purported responsibility for fentanyl overdoses among American youth. A day later, she told CNN she had complained to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the incident, and described herself as “surprised and angered” by Mr Green’s decision to actually enforce the House rules to her detriment. She claimed Mr McCarthy “agreed with ” and implied the House Speaker did not believe the body’s decorum rules should have been used to keep her from speaking.