Republicans in the US House of Representatives are preparing to vote on a bill to remove Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, days after she was excluded from the African Affairs Committee, due to previous criticism of Israel.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives had confirmed the day before yesterday, Tuesday, in a statement to the network "CNN" (CNN), securing the sufficient percentage of votes to exclude the deputy because of her previous criticism of Israel, which was considered anti-Semitic.
The House Rules Committee had approved the rule setting the criteria for debate ahead of an expected vote Wednesday night (local time) on removing the lawmaker.
It is not known yet whether the leaders of the Democratic Party decided to keep the name of Representative Ilhan Omar in the list of members of their party, who will occupy seats in the Foreign Affairs Committee.
And last Friday, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives disqualified Ilhan Omar from the House African Affairs Committee.
The Congressional African Affairs Committee is a subdivision of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that has jurisdiction over diplomatic and national security matters, including foreign aid, war powers, and international sanctions enforcement.
Since the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives last November, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised to make efforts to exclude Ilhan Omar from the committee, and he said in press statements, "I remember what she said about Israel. She promised last year that she would not be in foreign affairs yet." Now. I keep that promise."
The Muslim-American lawmaker described her exclusion as "discrimination, racism and hatred of people of foreign origin."
Ilhan Omar, an American politician of Somali origin, belongs to the Democratic Party, and won membership in the Minnesota House of Representatives in November 2016, becoming the first veiled Muslim in the United States legislature.