GOP leaders strip Steve King of committee assignments

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GOP leaders strip Steve King of committee assignments
By Cristina Marcos and Juliegrace Brufke - 01/14/19 07:49 PM EST

House GOP leaders moved Monday to remove Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from all of his committee assignments following a firestorm over remarks considered racist.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters after a meeting of the Republican Steering Committee that King would not receive any committee assignments for the new Congress.

King faced bipartisan criticism after telling The New York Times in an interview published last week, "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”

King had been a member of the House Judiciary, Agriculture and Small Business committees. He had also served as chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice in the last Congress, and could have stood to serve as its ranking member under the Democratic majority.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425328-gop-leaders-strip-steve-king-of-committee-assignments

[skeeter]

In view of King's entirely plausible explanation of his comments this appears to be the GOP leadership looking for a reason to get rid of another troublesome conservative.

Apparently Rashida Tliab is more their kind of congressperson.

[EdJames]

In view of King's entirely plausible explanation of his comments this appears to be the GOP leadership looking for a reason to get rid of another troublesome conservative.

Apparently Rashida Tliab is more their kind of congressperson.

Exactly, King is considered to be an "immigration hawk" which they find particularly irksome at this time.