The House voted 218 to 211 Thursday along mostly partisan lines for a resolution condemning Omar’s past statements about Israel and disallowing her from serving on the foreign affairs committee.
Omar, one of few Muslims in Congress and a former refugee from Somalia, sharply condemned the decision.
“This debate today, it’s about who gets to be an American. What opinions do we get to have, do we have to have to be counted as Americans,” Omar said on the House floor. “This is what this debate is about, Madam Speaker. There is this idea that you are suspect if you are an immigrant. Or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone or a Muslim.”
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