Nicole Malliotakis: “We have heard from my colleagues the reasons why Representative Omar should be removed from this committee, but I feel…”

“We have heard from my colleagues the reasons why Representative Omar should be removed from this committee, but I feel like all the reasons have not just yet been stated, which is why I rise to add to the Record. We have heard about the comments that were made regarding anti- Semitism and anti-Israeli views, but I rise to add to the Record that as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I have sat there and heard the Representative actually spew anti-American rhetoric, as well. I have been in that committee room where the Representative equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee. I have also heard the Representative equate that it is the United States' fault that there is turmoil in Venezuela; that it is not because of the oppressive socialism and communism that has spread throughout Central and South America and Venezuela at the hands of the Maduro and Hugo Chavez regimes. That is unacceptable. As a New York Representative, to hear the Representative belittle, to try to diminish the worst terrorist attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as ``some people did something,'' that is unacceptable, as well. And I hold the same standard for this side of the aisle that I do the other, because when another colleague on my side said something about 9/11, I also voted to have her removed from the Committee on Education and Labor, because I thought that was inappropriate.…”