Republicans swoop in to do damage control, stripping Rep. Steve King of House committee assignments
Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa was stripped from his committee assignments on Monday night after his controversial remarks on whether white supremacy was offensive drew backlash from lawmakers in both parties.
King, who was on the Agriculture and Judiciary committees, was removed from the positions by the Republican Steering Committee, the congressional group that assigns lawmakers their committee roles, Republican officials said to The New York Times.
King's comments from a New York Times report published Thursday drew swift backlash after he questioned why "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" were considered controversial. King also added that he supported immigrants who legally came to the US and eventually assimilated to the "culture of America."
"White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?" King said, according to the Times report. "Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"
https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-king-stripped-of-house-committee-assignments-after-white-supremacy-report-2019-1
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his own racist petard.
his district sent him back to DC only to lose his committee assignments.
