US House to Vote on Disciplining Member for Violent Video

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution to censure a Republican congressman for posting to social media an animated video depicting him striking another member with a sword and attacking President Joe Biden.  In addition to censure, the resolution calls for removing Congressman Paul Gosar from the House Oversight and Natural Resources committees.  Gosar shared the video earlier this month, an altered anime clip, a style of Japanese animation, that also included interspersed video of Border Patrol officers and migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.  Responding to criticism of the post, Gosar issued a statement saying it wasn’t meant to depict violencemore

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