Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she “absolutely” deserves credit for House Republicans moving forward with impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week, citing the two times she moved to force votes on booting the embattled Cabinet head last year.
In a phone interview with The Hill on Monday — one day before the House Homeland Security Committee is set to mark up articles of impeachment against Mayorkas — the Georgia Republican argued that her pair of procedural gambits in November were the impetus for this week’s panel vote.
“Absolutely this is happening because I forced that floor vote,” Greene said.
The congresswoman claimed that Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), the chair of the Homeland Security Committee, has given her credit for setting the process in motion in their panel.
She noted that while the Judiciary Committee typically handles impeachment proceedings, the Homeland Security Committee has jurisdiction over Mayorkas’s impeachment because the House voted to refer Greene’s articles to that panel when she moved to force votes on the matter last year.