If Republicans secure a House majority in November, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly hopes to receive committee assignments that are better than the ones stripped from her last year.
In an article adapted from Robert Draper's new book, Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind, and published Monday by The New York Times Magazine, Greene is quoted saying that she would like to be assigned to the House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee.
"I completely deserve it," she told Draper in reference to the desired assignments, adding that she has been "treated like garbage."
With the anticipated November 8 midterm elections less than a month away, Republicans and Democrats are coming increasingly close to finding out who will take or maintain control of both chambers of Congress. Poll tracker FiveThirtyEight's analysis shows that Republicans are favored to win the House, with the model indicating that the GOP will come out on top in 72 out of 100 scenarios. That would be a loss for Democrats, who have a slight House majority with 220 members compared to Republicans' 212.
Republicans have already previewed potential investigations they might launch if they win the House, including into President Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) who is set to vacate his position in December.
Greene is a first-term representative for Georgia but has gained national recognition for her controversial views and comments, as well as her staunch support for former President Donald Trump. In February last year, the House voted to remove her from her assignments on the House Committee on Education and Labor and the House Budget Committee over past support on social media for several extremist conspiracy theories.
When it comes to House committees, a steering committee for each party makes assignments that must then be voted on by the Democratic Caucus or Republican Conference.
In a statement provided for Draper's story, Representative James Comer, the ranking member for the Oversight Committee who would most likely become committee chair if Republicans take back the House, said: "If Americans entrust Republicans with the majority next Congress, we look forward to the Steering Committee adding new G.O.P. members to the committee like Rep. Greene with energy and a strong interest in partnering with us in our efforts to rein in the unaccountable Swamp and to hold the Biden Administration accountable for its many self-inflicted crises that it has unleashed on the American people."
Greene has previously expressed her desire to receive appointments to the House Oversight and House Judiciary committees, as well as the Foreign Affairs committee.
"Of course I'm getting committee assignments back, and I'll get better ones than I had in the first place," she told reporters in November last year.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in November last year that Greene and Republican Representative Paul Gosar, who was also removed from committees last year, would have their assignments restored or receive better assignments.
Newsweek reached out to Greene and McCarthy for comment.
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