The Ohio Republican was also barred from speaking on the House floor for the rest of the day.
The fight, which was one of the most heated on the floor in recent memory, showed how divided people are over U.S. policy in the Middle East and how much members can say about each other without breaking House rules. Advertisement It also brought up a tougher question that the rules can’t answer: whether Miller’s main charge, no matter how bluntly it was made, was valid.
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American and one of only two Muslim women in Congress, opened her floor remarks by calling for an end to “U.S. participation in the Israeli apartheid regime’s invasion of Lebanon.”
