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2023年4月9日

下載應用程序的電子郵件地址,點擊“注冊”,你同意收到內部營銷電子郵件以及其他合作夥伴提供和接受我們的服務條款和隱私政策。CNN政治評論員範·瓊斯上周敦促田納西州共和黨州眾議員傑裏米百在黨內決定驅逐兩名黑人民主黨州議員槍改革地板抗議。瓊斯尖銳地說,共和黨人一直“不合理”的情況。百的采訪期間,他作為國家主席的眾議院共和黨黨團會議,瓊斯質疑為什麼共和黨議員要求國務院眾議員賈斯汀·瓊斯和賈斯汀·皮爾森堅持身體的規則,然後繼續把他們從他們選出的位置。“如果你說你想要這個立法機構被尊重,你為什麼不遵循規則和使用的工具,你有嗎?”Jones asked Faison during the television exchange. "You want them to not be extreme, but you're being extreme. Why is that?" Faison said he felt as though House Republicans followed the proper protocol. "We actually are following the rules and we gave them ample chance," he said. "We established what was taking place on Monday. There was due process. It is not just up to me." Jones then cut in and asked Faison why Republicans didn't initiate an ethics process for the two Democrats. "I'm just trying to understand — why did you not go to the Ethics Committee and do the things that are always done in that body? You have not done this to anybody except for two people in 200 years," he said. "You can't tell me that there have not been people who have also been disruptive. You've had people have that peed on chairs that did not get expelled." "I don't understand why you skipped the Ethics Committee if you want respect, and if you want for people to be reasonable, why are you being so unreasonable and why are you skipping steps? You're not acting the way you want the young people to act," he continued. Faison disputed the veracity of the peeing incident — even as Politico reporter Natalie Allison recently wrote that it was "generally accepted" that it occurred — but he indicated that the decision to oust the two lawmakers was the prevailing sentiment among the GOP caucus. "What you need to understand is this is a body of people who decide cooperatively what we're going to do moving forward," Faison said. "This body spoke many times. I brought our caucus together several times since last Thursday to ask the body what we as a group wanted to do." "The overwhelming majority, the heartbeat of this caucus, says, 'Not on this House floor. Not this way,'" he added. Faison then stated that Republicans, who control 75 out of the 99 seats in the state House of Representatives, didn't want to go through an ethics process or censure the Democratic lawmakers. In late March, Jones and Pearson took to the House floor and used bullhorns to rally gun reform advocates at the state Capitol who were pushing for action after the shooting deaths of six people — including three children — at the Covenant School in Nashville. State Rep. Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker who also joined the gun reform protest, was not expelled by House Republicans and remarked last week that "it's pretty clear" why she was spared. "I'm a 60-year-old white woman, and they are two young Black men. In listening to the questions and the way they were questioned and the way they were talked to, I was talked down to as a woman, mansplained to, but it was completely different from the questioning that they got," she said. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Subscribe to push notifications