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OMAR: “You remember Marjorie Taylor Greene coming to Congress in 2019, before she was a member of Congress, and saying that Muslims should not be in Congress and oddly, for somebody who believes in the Constitution, didn’t actually know that I had a constitutional right along with Rashida Tlaib to get sworn in whatever I chose because we have freedom of religion in this country. And so, we know what this is about. This is about saying, 'This particular member of Congress is not allowed to have a voice on the Foreign Affairs Committee. This particular member of Congress is someone that we don’t think is appropriate in voicing.' And that comes back to the fact that they don’t actually think Muslims or, you know, refugees or immigrants in this country can appropriately criticize U.S. policy, can appropriately criticize, you know, policies of other countries. And to me, that is against my First Amendment rights. It is against what our Constitution allows, it’s against the principles we all believe as Americans, about the freedom to debate and engage in dissent. And you have to remember the Foreign Affairs Committee really isn’t about, you know, rubber stamping whatever the foreign policy of whatever administration is. It’s about oversight. It’s about critique. It’s about advancing a better policy forward. And it certainly is about making sure that the values that we say to be true as a country are carried out through our foreign policy and they don’t remain a myth. And these people don’t believe in that kind of accountability being necessary when it comes to our country and others."