Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from high-profile US House committee
WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two years after Democrats removed two Republicans from committee assignments.
The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee with Republicans citing the 2019 remarks for which she later apologised. One Republican voted “present.”
Omar, who arrived in the United States as a refugee from Somalia...
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