Posted on 01/14/2023 6:10:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said Thursday she voted against a measure this week creating a bipartisan select committee on the security, economic, and technological challenges posed to the U.S. by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because it will “embolden anti-Asian rhetoric and hate.”
“I voted ‘no’ because, again, it’s a — it’s a — another sham effort here, it’s really clear that this is just a committee that would further embolden anti-Asian rhetoric and hate and put lives at risk,” Pressley told CNN. […]
Pressley, a leftist member of the so-called “squad,” was one of 65 Democrats to vote against the resolution creating the “Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.” Another 146 of her party colleagues voted with 219 Republicans to pass it.
Asked if she thought the 146 Democrats who voted in favor were wrong, she replied, “we just see it differently.” […]
Of note was a “yes” vote from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), an outspoken critic of the CCP’s treatment of minority Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which the Biden and Trump administrations determined constitutes genocide and crimes against humanity.
In contrast, Omar’s fellow “Squad” members — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Pressley, and freshmen newcomers Summer Lee (Pa.) and Greg Casar (Texas) — all opposed the measure. …
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Kind of resembles Tiki Barber in drag…
A friggin’ ditzy bimbo who thinks she is some kind of brilliant U.S. leader. A chimpanzee can get that job if it’s owner will go on TV and sing its praises to the ignorant and greedy far left voters.
Whow, for a minute I thought my car door was open because I heard the ding, dong going off!
Are they on China’s payroll?
Her not understanding or protecting the CCP proves this committee is necessary.
efforts to shutdown the committee are efforts to keep chinese payoffs to congressional types from coming out
Translation” - “It will show how corrupt some Dems are so it’s time to call it a racist avenue to hate crimes...”
It’ll be interesting to see how these words age.
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