BLOG # 6
In the article, the media succinctly covers the details about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s punishment for her hostile media reports. The US house, and more particularly, votes are made in the proposal to eliminate her from chair. The media covers her posts, quoting that most of them have been incendiary and against the desired content for communication. CNN covers reports about her walking the well of the House floor with a board with a long-removed post and ad depicting a weapon held next to some democratic representatives. She leaves the message for self-interpretation by the House.
The media covers the role of the Electoral College and the Indecisive Elections by the House of Representatives. One of the areas that the media intersects with politics is the rule that for as long as there are more than one who have such a Majority and a similar equal number of votes, then the House of representatives can act accordingly in elections. Greene countered the media because of the combative tone used and pushing back against the accusations by democrats and reports in the media outlets about liking some Facebook posts.
As such, the mass media successfully intersects with politics involving the House of Representatives. The press received all the information regarding the elimination of Greene from power. The final decision is left on the public to decide whether the combative style employed was sufficient for the case. It is evident that even with an apology, her case regarding the media and her involvement with advertisements was not heard successfully. Any statements that could be made on the media by Greene would still be used against her and her case regarding media advertisements.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been stripped of her committee assignments. What's next?
By Clare Foran, Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expresses regret for past remarks
(CNN)The Democrat-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, but that doesn't mean the backlash against her -- or the spotlight on her -- is at an end.
Greene, a freshman from Georgia, remains a member of Congress and will still be able to vote. But she has quickly become one of the most controversial lawmakers during her short time in office. That has elevated her profile in right-wing and conservative circles and given her more of a platform -- and some Democrats won't be satisfied that she's been sufficiently rebuked with the removal of her committee assignments alone.
Greene defended herself ahead of the vote in a speech on the House floor and attempted to distance herself from the dangerous and debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, which she has previously embraced.
But Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California, who has introduced a resolution to expel Greene, told reporters he still believes she should be removed from Congress even after watching her floor remarks. The congressman said of his resolution, "I'm committed to bringing it up, and I said that to leadership that there needs to be a vote sooner rather or later on this."
Gomez said that the reason why he is pursuing a resolution to expel Greene "is to send a message that this kind of discourse in our politics is not acceptable, inciting political violence, threatening people as is not acceptable and a person like that should not hold a position in the House of Representatives."
But don't expect Greene to be run out of Congress any time soon. The system is built to respect the will of the voters in any given congressional district and unless she resigns or a supermajority of the House votes to expel her, Greene will be there to stay.
The Constitution gives Congress the ability to impeach federal officials and judges, but not its own members. They can only be removed by expulsion, which requires a 2/3 vote, a high bar that would be unlikely to be cleared with Democrats holding only a narrow majority.
Here are the 11 House Republicans who voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments
Here are the 11 House Republicans who voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments
Greene, meanwhile, has been highlighting how much she has been able to fundraise amid the controversy sparked by reports over her past conduct, including from CNN's KFile that she repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress.
On Wednesday evening, she tweeted, "Let's keep sending the message to the Democrat mob. We raised over $160,000 yesterday. We've already raised $100,000 today. Can we raise $50,000 more to defend my seat before midnight?"
Losing committee assignments is a blow to a member of Congress, though.
Former GOP Rep. Steve King was the last member stripped of his committee assignments in January 2019. House Republicans made the move following racist remarks from the Iowa Republican. He lost his reelection bid last year.
CNN's Zachary B. Wolf contributed to this report.
BLOG # 11 The Cable News Network (CNN) covered this event quite objectively, given that it brought out well the fact that the Covid-19 relief issue was a national concern, coming at a time when there was a change of leadership in the country (Fox, 2021). Having lost approximately 500,000 Americans to the pandemic, the bill to help Americans shoulder the resultant economic burden needed a bipartisan approach (Fox, 2021). The reporter even observed, and rightly so, that even within the Democratic Party itself, the moderates and the progressives needed to work together. For the undecided, the general opinion was that it was not appropriate to fight Biden's first major assignment, more so if it is a bill that is popular across the country (Fox, 2021). The reporter did well to observe the most likely reaction of the Republicans, who may oppose the bill for no reason other than that they lost in the elections (Fox, 2021). One issue the writer has noted is the slim majority held by the ...
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