MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE

In September, Greene told Insider that, "I have an independent investment advisor that has full discretionary authority on my accounts."

Former President Donald Trump says politicians who refuse to say whether they’ve received COVID-19 booster shots are “gutless.”.

"I hate to use this language," the Georgia Republican said, equating Democrats with a "tyrannical government."

The ex-president was expelled from Twitter a year ago. What impact has it had - and will he be back?

In a brief interview, Greene called the proposal a "power grab" and said if members can't handle COVID, they shouldn't be serving in Congress.

It's not often that Ted Cruz finds himself having to mend fences with the right.

The extremist Republican returned just days after demanding colleagues stop using the platform.

But on the anniversary of the attack, top Republicans were far more muted. It's all part of the political calculus in a party in which the former president remains very much in charge. It was a notable shift from the comments he had made last year after the Senate voted against Trump's impeachment. “There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. “We’re proud of the work that we did on Jan. 6 to make legitimate arguments about election integrity."

Just a year ago, many Republicans joined Democrats in reacting with horror to the Capitol insurrection.

But on the anniversary of the attack, top Republicans were far more muted. It's all part of the political calculus in a party in which the former president remains very much in charge. It was a notable shift from the comments he had made last year after the Senate voted against Trump's impeachment. “There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. “We’re proud of the work that we did on Jan. 6 to make legitimate arguments about election integrity."

To beat Matt Gaetz, Democrat Rebekah Jones says she follows all his moves, including the federal sex-trafficking investigation and MAGA-style events.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

Misconceptions about America's founding haven't been exclusive to one political ideology.

Misconceptions about America's founding haven't been exclusive to one political ideology.

Critics pointed out the flaws with the conspiracy theorist Colorado Republican’s defense of her fellow far-right extremist.

CBSDuring his first new Late Show monologue of 2022, Stephen Colbert pivoted from joking about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter suspension to a longer chunk about the upcoming anniversary of the Capitol insurrection with the segue, “Speaking of insane people trying to destroy everything.”“In lieu of flowers, the rioters are asking for money in their prison canteen accounts,” he added, before turning his attention to the Congressional committee investigating the attack.Jordan Klepper Calls O

Congresswoman claimed data showed Covid-19 vaccine was unsafe

The U.S. representative had faced an escalating series of bans over her inaccurate claims.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter, again. This time it is permanent, the social network said.

Twitter on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, banned the personal account of Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. She wrote that her account was suspended after tweeting statistics from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a government database that includes unverified raw data. “That's fine, I'll show America we don't need them and it's time to defeat our enemies.”Twitter had previously suspended Greene’s personal account for periods ranging from 12 hours to a full week. The ban applies to Greene’s personal account, @mtgreenee, but does not affect her official Twitter account, @RepMTG. Last week, Greene also boasted on Twitter about talking to the former president by phone.

Twitter on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, banned the personal account of Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. Two or three strikes earn a 12-hour account lock; four strikes prompt a weeklong suspension, and five or more strikes can get someone permanently removed from Twitter. The ban applies to Greene's personal account, @mtgreenee, but does not affect her official Twitter account, @RepMTG. Greene previously blasted a weeklong suspension as a “Communist-style attack on free speech.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Twitter says it's banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

A spokesperson for the social media company said it had been clear that it would ban accounts for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy.

Account suspended: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal Twitter account was permanently suspended after the company issued her a "fifth strike." (Caroline Brehman_CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal Twitter account was permanently suspended Sunday after the company said the Georgia Republican had violated its COVID-19 misinformation policies. >> Read more trending newsAccording to Twitter, Green had a fifth “strike” on her @mtgreenee account, The New York Times reported. Greene still has access to and can tweet from her official congressional account, @RepMTG, according to CNN. “Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth,” Greene said.

"We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said in a statement.

The events from last Jan. 6 in Washington unfolded on live television and they've been the subject of congressional hearings and criminal proceedings since then.

With Florida and Texas seeing an influx of new residents, the congresswoman said it is "wise" to bar Democrats who move to red states from voting temporarily.

In resisting the House's rules, Greene has accumulated more than $80,000 in fines, while Clyde has at least $30,000, according to The New York Times.

Though Greene condemned the holiday, her GOP counterparts, including Trump, previously offered greetings to those who celebrate it.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has denounced Kwanzaa as a “fake religion” just as millions of Black people start to celebrate the weeklong holiday. The far-right Georgia lawmaker berated the national College Republicans for “pandering and BS” after the GOP group tweeted a seemingly innocuous happy holiday message. “Stop. It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath,” Greene said. “People are ...

Iowa’s 2nd congressional district has the dubious distinction of having the second-most structurally deficient bridges in the country.

Insider's Conflicted Congress project revealed Greene holds AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson stock, each worth between $1,000 and $15,000.

In rejecting claims of racism in the pro-Trump movement, Greene used a phrase which itself drew accusations of racism.

The far-right House member tried to make a pithy comment about Sen. Cory Booker's breakthrough COVID case.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is working to tamp down internal feuds and shift members to talking about inflation and other issues that he believes will help his party return to the majority.

The extremist Republican’s Islamophobic comments are on full display in the montage.

The extremist Republican’s Islamophobic comments are on full display in the montage.

While the measure was introduced months ago, Tuesday’s vote comes amid growing calls for House Republicans to take action against Islamophobia within their ranks.

Sketch depicted Lauren Boebert holding semi-automatic rifle while claiming Covid-19 was ‘fake disease’

Progressive Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado for her recent comments likening a Muslim member of Congress to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

Devin Nunes simply realized what Republicans actually care about

In an interview on the right-wing podcast “You Are Here," Kyle Rittenhouse pushed back on assertions that he was a "hero."

The "Late Show" comedian also had some choice words for GOP Sen. Ron Johnson following his attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Trump's new digital media venture — TRUTH Social — and its SPAC partner recently announced that it aims to raise $1 billion in capital.

The path to power for Republicans in Congress is now rooted in the capacity to generate outrage. Boebert has also repeatedly referred to Omar as belonging to a “jihad squad,” as well as “black-hearted” and "evil." Her comments drew widespread condemnation and led to calls for Boebert to become the third GOP lawmaker this year to be removed from congressional committees. She has raked in $2.7 million so far this year, making her one of the top Republican fundraisers, according to campaign finance disclosures. Still, some Republicans say just because the three have achieved a measure of fame doesn't mean they have accumulated real influence or staying power.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy as a handful of Republican lawmakers stir outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments: If you can’t police them, promote them.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy to deal with a handful of Republican lawmakers who have stirred outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments. The path to power for Republicans in Congress is now rooted in the capacity to generate outrage. The alarming language, and the fundraising haul it increasingly produces, is another example of how Donald Trump, the former president, has left his mark on politics, changing the way Republicans rise to influence and authority.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for seeming to imply that cancer is a contagious illness, like COVID-19.

Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the GOP lawmakers calling to strip funding for agencies carrying out the mandate in a stopgap spending bill.

Mace used three emojis to call Taylor Greene "batshit crazy" and Rep. Adam Kinzinger nicknamed her an "unserious circus barker McSpacelaser."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) after Mace criticized Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for an anti-Muslim remark Boebert made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Mace "is the trash in the GOP Conference. Never attacked by Democrats or RINO's (same thing) because she is not conservative, she's pro-abort," Greene said in a tweet posted on Tuesday morning, using an acronym for "Republican in name only." Greene told...

Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert has spoken by phone with congresswoman Ilhan Omar just days after likening the Minnesota Democrat to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

The far-right Republican said the Kenosha killer was a "hero" who deserves a Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill on Tuesday to award Kyle Rittenhouse the Congressional Gold Medal for "protecting the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot on August 25, 2020."The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor Congress can award an individual or institution. It is highly unlikely the bill will go anywhere in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate, and it has no co-...

When he was acquitted of murder for shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse went from staring at possible life behind bars to red-hot star of the right.

In ‘Betrayal,’ journalist Jonathan Karl dissects what led to Trump’s election loss and the ensuing violence

Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy is "scared of their influence," said the MSNBC anchor of the extremists.

The House debate devolved into the kind of partisan food-fighting, whataboutism and name-calling that we’ve come to expect from our politics. But rarely has it been in such stark relief on the floor of Congress.

The senator from Louisiana leverages his party's resuscitated rhetoric about communism to attack a Biden nominee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hit back at GOP threats of retaliation: "They shouldn't have a gavel be anywhere near them ever."

The conspiracy theory-endorsing Republican said she's "standing strong" for the unvaccinated, but also claimed she'd drive people to get the shot.

The House has voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is facing censure in the House over a violent video he posted online.

The recent guilty plea by the shooter in the 2018 Parkland school slayings drew some renewed attention to the anti-gun March for Our Lives student movement.

It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation programs.

Ten House Democrats say they will introduce a House resolution to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar is facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

The House panel investigating the Jan_ 6 Capitol insurrection has focused some of its early work on the planning behind a massive rally at which President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won reelection and told his supporters to “fight like hell.”.

The architect of an upcoming Washington protest that aims to rewrite history about the violent January assault on the U.S. Capitol is hardly a household name.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is asking social media and telecommunications companies to preserve phone or computer records for hundreds of people.

As the U.S. rushes to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan, a growing number of Republicans are questioning why the U.S. should take in Afghan citizens who worked side by side with Americans.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida eloped to Southern California, marrying his girlfriend Ginger Luckey in a small ceremony on Catalina Island.

YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days after the Kentucky Republican posted a misleading video suggesting face masks don't prevent infection by COVID-19.

One of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a U.S. House vote has contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19.

Most Republicans say they want former President Donald Trump to have at least some influence over the direction of their party going forward.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting political as he makes a fresh push for vaccinations in the nation's most populous state.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

Three Republican U.S. House members have lost appeals challenging fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor earlier this year.

Rep_ Marjorie Taylor Greene says her 12-hour suspension from Twitter is "a Communist-style attack on free speech.”.

Brian Kemp often tells supporters to “keep choppin’ wood,” his way of urging a calm, deliberate approach — even in politics.

House Democrats and Republicans are backing away from a tit-for-tat battle over punishing firebrand lawmakers from the other party.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is apologizing after recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust.

Three Pennsylvania lawmakers will be in Arizona to check out the state Senate GOP’s partisan audit of the 2020 election.

Republican leaders are forcefully condemning GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia over her comments comparing House COVID-19 safety measures like masks to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

House Republicans are rebelling against the requirement that they wear a mask on the House floor.

A year before her election to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene searched for Rep_ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at her Capitol office, challenging the New York Democrat to “get rid of your diaper” and “talk to the American citizens.”.

Republican Kevin McCarthy is leading his party to an inflection point.

Sen. Ron Johnson is in an uncomfortable class of his own.

As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are presenting top House Republicans with a test of how to handle a new breed of Trump-era, social media-savvy firebrands.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene are presenting top House Republicans with a test of how to handle a new breed of Trump-era, social media-savvy firebrands.

Hard-right House Republicans are discussing forming an America First Caucus.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, has denied wrongdoing and refused to resign — or even lay low — amid mounting political pressure.

The Republican Party is bringing hundreds of donors and several presidential prospects to the former president’s doorstep in south Florida this weekend.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was briefly suspended from Twitter Sunday in what the platform called an error.

Compared with most congressional newbies, it didn’t take Rep. Matt Gaetz long.

Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars.

Rep. Matt Gaetz is facing accusations of a sexual relationship with an underage girl, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says if the claims are true, then the Florida Republican should at a minimum be removed from the House Judiciary Committee.

LOS ANGELES – U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and a Los Angeles-based political action committee have reached a settlement that bars the Georgia Republican from blocking anyone from her public Twitter account or other social media while she's in office. However, Greene was acidly critical of the settlement in a tweet. “Because of this PAC’s frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m not allowed to block people that threaten my life and my children’s lives every single day on social media," she tweeted. Although it wasn't her formal congressional Twitter account, MeidasTouch said Greene uses it as a “de facto" official account, sharing her positions and doing fundraising drives. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, was sued in a similar case that she later settled.