Controversial Lawmaker Comes Up During LI Congressman's Town Hall

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat U.S. Rep. Thomas Suozzi condemned anti-Semitic comments made by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, in response to a constituent questioning him during a telephone town hall in the 3rd Congressional District on Wednesday — the eve of a crucial vote to strip her committee duties.

“It’s horrific, and she is sitting in Congress and people are backing her,” a Jericho woman said during the meeting, which had about 6,000 listeners. “How could you possibly have someone in Congress with that kind of attitude?”

Greene, a supporter of QAnon, has come under fire in recent weeks for claiming the California wildfires were caused by a laser from outer space backed by a Jewish banking family, among other conspiracy theories.

Greene also has previously said that the World Trade Center attacks and the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School were hoaxes.

“We can’t stand for anti-Semitism in any circumstances, and we can’t stand for anyone calling for violence or people who try to promote crazy conspiracy theories,” he said.

Congress was expected to vote on removing Greene from her committee assignments on Thursday. The vote comes a day after Republican leader U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy denounced her past comments, but stood by her, the New York Times reported.

Calling Greene’s comments reprehensible, Suozzi — who signed on to a bill to censure her — said it appears the Democrats will actually move forward with “kicking her off her committees.”

He said that he “really wished” the Republican caucus would do it themselves because Congress has not had to involve another party or the whole Congress to strip a representative of their committee duties in 100 years.

Suozzi said that the country already has enough of a problem with the dissemination of misinformation over social media and cable television, and it doesn’t need members of Congress contributing.

“We certainly can’t let members of Congress do it, so we are fighting back against it,” he said.

Prior to the vote to strip her committee duties, Greene said she regretted her QAnon comments saying, “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true,” the BBC reported.