Top-ranking Republican McCaul calls for ouster of Omar from committee 'I think Omar has to go,' said U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), eliciting wild applause and a standing ovation from the audience, though others will have to make that decision.

July 8, 2019   

(JNS) U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should be removed from the committee for her anti-Semitic remarks.

When asked by Michelle Makori of i24 News at the annual summit by Christians United for Israel whether the freshman congresswoman should be kicked off the committee, McCaul said that decision is up to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — an answer that elicited jeers from the CUFI crowd before McCaul could finish his answer.

“But as for me, I think Omar has to go,” he said, eliciting wild applause and a standing ovation from the audience.

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