If the Republicans win control of the House in the next election, they will restore Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to committees.
Kevin McCarthy is the House Minority Leader. Alex Wong poses for a picture.
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McCarthy said at the news conference that Republicans might remove Democrats from committees in the future because Democrats have changed the standards.
If the Republicans regain the House, Gosar and Greene would both get committee assignments.
Gosar was censured by the House on Wednesday for posting a video showing him killing a lawmaker, and he was removed from committees for promoting conspiracy theories.
McCarthy told Democrats they would regret this after stripping her of her committee assignments. He's said in the past that Republicans have a long list of Democrats that could be targeted for removal.
The key background.
Gosar posted a video last week showing himself as a character in the Attack on Titan series, using swords to kill monsters that had been edited to look like President Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Gosar removed the video after it was posted, but did not apologize. Nancy Pelosi called the video "horrific", while Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz suggested Gosar should be "criminally prosecuted". Republican leadership did not condemn Gosar for the video. The House voted to censure Gosar on Wednesday.
Democrats historically have dominated polls in the past, but polls show Republicans leading Democrats in generic congressional ballots for the upcoming elections. Redistricting of swing states, which have Republican-controlled legislatures, will help the party in next year's election. According to an analysis by Politico, the maps that were approved so far have already created 14 House districts that are made up of voters that supported Donald Trump. Democrats control the House.
Rep. Gosar was censured after sharing a violent video of himself killing a person.
The House Republicans are wearing in-kind retribution for the removal of a lawmaker.
Gosar was censured minutes after the video was posted.
Republicans have taken the biggest congressional poll lead over Democrats.
