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Congressman McGovern calls for the removal of Marjorie Greene from committees

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Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern speaks on the floor of the US House of Representatives ahead of a vote to remove representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee roles over extremist past statements, which includes her harassment of a teen school shooting survivor, trafficking in anti-Semitic and xenophobic tropes, and support of social media posts that endorsed assassinating Democratic lawmakers. "If this isn't the bottom, then I don't know what the hell is," says McGovern in a speech. SOUNDBITE

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