In rare vote, House sends a message on anti-Semitism to Ilhan Omar
by Naomi Lim
| February 13, 2019 05:17 PM
| Updated Feb 13, 2019, 05:26 PM
The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a broad condemnation of anti-Semitism days after Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., received widespread criticism over her comments on Israel.
The language, which does not mention Omar by name,
was approved 424-0 using a legislature procedure that lets the minority party make a last-minute motion to change legislation just before it's passed.
The procedure almost never works for the minority party, in part because the minority usually tries to make radical changes to the bill that the majority quickly rejects.
On Wednesday, however, Republicans used the so-called "motion to recommit" vote to call for the addition of language to a resolution that states it is in the "national interests of the United States to combat anti-Semitism at home and abroad."
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