House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced that House Democrats will move ahead with a resolution to remove controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committee assignments.

"I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments," Leader Hoyer wrote in a statement. 

A full House vote is expected Thursday to remove Greene from her assignments on the House education and budget committees. Democrat Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch, both of Florida, and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut introduced the resolution on Monday, saying in a virtual news conference they were aiming to reduce "the future harm that she can cause in Congress," but gave Republicans the opportunity to take action first.

In a meeting of the Rules Committee Wednesday, committee chair Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said the actions they are taking "isn't about partisanship," nor is it about "canceling anybody for different political beliefs."

"It is about accountability, and about upholding the integrity and the decency of this institution," McGovern said. "If this isn't the bottom line, I don't know where the hell the bottom line is."

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the committee, said that he finds Greene's comments "repugnant," "deeply offensive" and "unbecoming any member of Congress," but said that this matter "should first be adjudicated by the Ethics Committee."

Texas GOP Rep. Brian Babin also criticized the proceedings: "The majority is seeking to hold Rep. Greene to the standard of the House rules for her conduct and words while she was a private citizen, but they have said nothing and will do nothing about Rep. Omar's conduct."

Babin is one of five House Republicans – Reps. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Jody Hice (R-GA), Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) – who proposed an amendment to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments.

Rep. Omar tweeted Wednesday that "It’s been fun watching those who rail against 'cancel culture', spend their day trying to cancel" both herself and fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), with a GIF of herself captioned "it's complete hypocrisy."

Speaking to the committee, Rep. Wasserman Schultz said that Greene "chose her destructive path. Today she doubled down. Now that she has made those choices, the House needs to choose to limit the harm she can cause going forward."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) met with Greene late Tuesday to discuss the bipartisan outcry over her comments and social media activity supporting violence against Democrats and conspiracy theories, including questioning the veracity of school shootings.

In a statement Wednesday, McCarthy said that he condemns Greene's comments: "Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference."

"I made this clear to Marjorie when we met," he added. "I also made clear that as a member of Congress we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard than how she presented herself as a private citizen. Her past comments now have much greater meaning. Marjorie recognized this in our conversation. I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward." 

McCarthy went on to call the attempt by Democrats to remove her committee assignments a "partisan power grab," alleging that Democrats "continue to do nothing about" the conduct of their own members.

Greene responded on Twitter Monday about the attempt to remove her from her committee assignments: "If Democrats remove me from my committees, I can assure them that the precedent they are setting will be used extensively against members on their side once we regain the majority after the 2022 elections."

Greene has come under fire after CNN reported that the Republican freshman congresswoman from Georgia had expressed support for the execution of several prominent Democratic lawmakers in 2018 and 2019 via her social media channels. 

Then video surfaced of Greene in 2019 shouting questions at David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and calling him a "coward." At the time, Hogg was on Capitol Hill visiting lawmakers to discuss gun control laws.

Media Matters for America reported that Greene liked Facebook posts that called the Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Sandy Hook school shootings “false flag” planned events.

Greene has supported QAnon and a number of other bizarre conspiracy theories. QAnon believes that former President Donald Trump was fighting a secret war against a Democratic-run ring of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. She also reportedly wrote a Facebook post in 2018 claiming that a California wildfire was started by space lasers. 

In addition to Greene promoting conspiracy theories, Facebook videos surfaced last year showing she’d expressed racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim views. 

After her election, she seized on Trump's false claims that the election was stolen and cheered on his supporters the day before the Capitol was stormed.

"It’s our 1776 moment!" she posted on the conservative friendly social media platform Parler. 

The conspiracy theories about the school shootings especially angered the Democrats behind the resolution. Deutch represents the district where the 2017 Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre, which killed 17 people, took place, and Wasserman Schultz’s district is nearby. Hayes represents the district where the Sandy Hook shooting that left 26 dead occurred in 2012.

“Instead of repudiating her conduct, Republican [Minority] Leader [Kevin] McCarthy has rewarded her with a significant platform to perpetuate these dangerous lies as a member of the House education committee,” Deutch said. “This is not idle political chatter. After Jan. 6, we know what can happen when elected officials amplify dangerous lies and encourage violence.”

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland shooting, joined the conference call. He called on Greene to disavow her comments and resign from Congress, and he urged Republicans to discipline her.

“If they do not take action today, what we saw on Jan. 6, where lies went unchecked, was only the beginning,” he said, referring to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

Condemnation of Greene's comments have come from both sides of the aisle.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called her embrace of conspiracy theories and "loony lies" a "cancer for the Republican Party."

"Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality," he said. "This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party."

Last week, Pelosi pressed for House Republicans to take action against Greene. 

"Assigning her to the education committee, when she has mocked the killing of little children” in Newtown, “what could they be thinking, or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing?" Pelosi said of Republican leaders. "It’s absolutely appalling."