Republicans silenced Nancy Pelosi after she violated a 1984 precedent that barred representatives from “engaging in personalities”
Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images The House of Representatives voted along party lines on Tuesday to condemn the president’s attack on four Congresswoman of color as racist. The nonbinding resolution, which passed 240 to 187, refers to the president’s “go back” tweets and follow-up white nationalist rhetoric as “racist comments that have legitimized increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color.
But before the resolution passed, the House fell into chaos when Republicans objected to Nancy Pelosi’s use of the word “racist” to describe Trump’s racist language. GOP reps cited a 1984 precedent that barred representatives from “engaging in personalities.” As Roll Call explains: Under Jefferson’s Manual, the text governing procedure of the chamber specifically bars references to racial or other discrimination by the president. Remarks by House members cannot refer to the president as racist or the president “having made a bigoted or racist statement.”
“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” Pelosi said, raising her voice as Republicans stood in protest. Pelosi claimed she had “cleared [her] remarks with the parliamentarian” before speaking, but Georgia Republican Doug Collins made a formal objection and demanded that “her words be taken down.
After an hour’s delay, Emmanuel Cleaver, the Democrat presiding over the House, dropped his gavel and walked off: “We don’t ever, ever want to pass up, it seems, an opportunity to escalate, and that’s what this is. We want to just fight. I abandon the chair.” For the next hour or so, Republicans postured as if the president’s call for Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley to “go back” to their countries wasn’t racist.
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