https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.e37660a16d90
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Gotta give them white supremacists the freedom to spout their bullshit on the House floor.
House Democratic leaders blocked an effort to censure Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) for racial comments, referring the measure to the House Ethics Committee for further review because of concerns that it might set a dangerous precedent for policing members' speech.
Censure is the most serious sanction for a House member short of expulsion, and it has been imposed only six times in the past 100 years. Prompted by King's recent comments to the New York Times questioning the offensiveness of the terms "white nationalism" and "white supremacy," the House adopted a resolution condemning those remarks Tuesday.
But Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) sought to go further by censuring King and pressed for a vote on Wednesday. After the House clerk read the resolution detailing King's inflammatory comments over the years, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) moved to refer the matter to the Ethics Committee — a step that could bottle up the effort indefinitely.
The House agreed on a voice vote.
"I think we have spoken, and we have spoken on both sides of the aisle, that this is unacceptable rhetoric and behavior," Hoyer said beforehand, referring to Tuesday's disapproval measure.
Democratic leaders had feared that a censure of King could open Democrats to Republican retaliation.
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Gotta give them white supremacists the freedom to spout their bullshit on the House floor.