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Today Joe Biden is flying to Detroit, where he will be visiting General Motors and its Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant to talk about the bipartisan infrastructure deal that he signed into law earlier this week.
The president will speak about how the new infrastructure law will expand the green-energy manufacturing industry, with $7.5bn of the new infrastructure law set aside for electric vehicle chargers.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, negotiations continue for the reconciliation bill, also known as the Build Back Better Act. In a speech yesterday, Biden said he expected that Congress will pass the legislation by the end of the week.
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House to vote to censure Gosar over video depicting violence against AOC
Howdy, live blog readers. Let’s get the party started.
The House of Representatives will vote today on a resolution seeking to censure Arizona congressman Paul Gosar and remove him from the House oversight committee.
This comes in response to the Republican representative tweeting an edited anime video depicting him striking the New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword and appearing to threaten Joe Biden.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the tweet “an insult to the institution of the House of Representatives”. “We cannot have members joking about murdering each other as well as threatening the president of the United States,” Pelosi told reporters.
Manu Raju
(@mkraju)
New – Pelosi to me on Dems’ plans to censure Gosar and remove him from Oversight. “Because he made threats, suggestions about harming a member of Congress. That is an insult – not only endangerment of that member of Congress, but an insult to the institution of the” House pic.twitter.com/SKBoB6NKTK
November 16, 2021
The resolution appears to have 60 co-sponsors at the moment, as well as widespread support from members of the House.
Andrew Solender
(@AndrewSolender)
Here’s the list of the 60 House Democrats cosponsoring a resolution to censure GOP Rep. Paul Gosar: pic.twitter.com/fWfJCy6eNX
November 12, 2021
Adam Kinzinger
(@RepKinzinger)
We have to hold Members accountable who incite or glorify violence, who spread and perpetuate dangerous conspiracies. The failure to do so will take us one step closer to this fantasized violence becoming real.⁰⁰To be clear, I’ll be voting yes on the Gosar censure resolution.
November 16, 2021
For those watching from home (read: us), this censure vote should prove to be a rare spectacle in the House of Representatives, the last occurrence of which took place more than a decade ago.
Manu Raju
(@mkraju)
It’s rare for a House member to be censured (last time was Rangel in 2010) and have full House strip them of committee spots (only other person was MTG this year). But Gosar will have to stand in the well of the House today as Rangel did 11 years ago. https://t.co/tdKxuPeg5x
November 17, 2021
AOC spoke to Punchbowl News about how Gosar and Republicans “are essentially using a national platform to legitimize threats of violence on lower levels, and on the local levels, to intimidate people from participating in our democracy”.
Kyle Griffin
(@kylegriffin1)
Rep. AOC to Punchbowl: Gosar and other Republicans “are essentially using a national platform to legitimize threats of violence on lower levels, and on the local levels, to intimidate people from participating in our democracy. I believe this is part of a concerted strategy.”
November 16, 2021
Progressive Ocasio-Cortez has become a conservative bugbear, and she noted that this is not the first time that she’s faced threats at her job.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC)
Remember when Yoho accosted me on the the Capitol and called me a f—ing b—
Remember when Greene ran after me a few months ago screaming and reaching
Remember when she stalked my office the 1st time w/ insurrectionists & ppl locked inside
All at my job 🙃 & nothing ever happens
November 9, 2021
“I believe this is part of a concerted strategy,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “What we do here, our response, helps inform as a precedent for actions on the local levels.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC)
This dude is a just a collection of wet toothpicks anyway.
White supremacy is for extremely fragile people &sad men like him, whose self concept relies on the myth that he was born superior because deep down he knows he couldn’t open a pickle jar or read a whole book by himself
November 9, 2021