A routine House committee meeting erupted into fireworks over the Pledge of Allegiance, with one Democratic lawmaker saying that 'insurrectionists' who backed former President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election should be banned from leading it.
WASHINGTON — A routine House committee meeting erupted into a heated, nearly hourlong debate Wednesday over the Pledge of Allegiance, with one Democratic lawmaker saying that "insurrectionists" who backed former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election should be banned from leading it.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the committee's ranking member, immediately objected, arguing that House members already recite the pledge on the floor every day. "I don’t know why we should pledge allegiance twice in the same day to show how patriotic we are," he said. "This pledge is an affirmation of your defense of democracy and the Constitution," Cicilline. "It’s hard to take that claim seriously if in fact, an individual in any way supported an insurrection against the government."
"I’m concerned that you may be disqualifying too many of your own members," Gaetz said, as the two of them yelled over each other."I’m talking about elected officials who swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States, who in any way participated, supported, facilitated, encouraged the insurrection against the United States," Cicilline said. "That’s not too hard a standard.
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