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House votes against striking Pelosi remarks from record | TheHill

posted onJuly 17, 2019
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Article snippet: The House voted against striking Speaker MORE from the record on Tuesday after the House parliamentarian in a rare rebuke of the Speaker said her comments violated House rules. The vote on the motion to strike Pelosi’s remarks failed in a 190-232 vote with no Democratic support. Every Republican voted in favor of the motion. The parliamentarian ruled the speech violated rules forbidding personal attacks on the House floor against the president. Pelosi was offering comments about a resolution set to condemn as racist Trump's comments earlier in the week that four minority congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries. All four are U.S. citizens, and three of them were born in the U.S. Majority Leader MORE (D-Md.) announced the parliamentarian’s decision against Pelosi, stating that by calling the remarks by Trump racist, she had violated the House’s rules. "The chair is prepared to rule. The words of the gentlewoman from California contain an accusation of racist behavior on the part of the president. As memorialized in Chapter 29, Section 65.6, characterizing an action as racist is not in order," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on the floor ahead of the vote.  "The chair relies on the precedent of May 15, 1984, and finds that the words should not be used in debate," he continued. Pelosi said she did not regret her remarks. "I stand by my statement. I’m proud of the attention that’s being called to it because what the president said was com... Link to the full article to read more

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