FOG BLOG U.S. POLITICS LOG: HOUSE VOTE ON REMOVING MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE:

The House will vote Thursday on a measure to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, a decisive step that comes in the wake of recently unearthed incendiary and violent past statements from the congresswoman that have triggered widespread backlash from Democrats and divided congressional Republicans.

House Democrats, who control the chamber, set up the vote after first attempting to pressure Republicans to strip the Georgia Republican of committee assignments on their own. House Republicans have not taken that action, however, and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday released a statement calling the push by Democrats to take away the congresswoman's committee assignments a "partisan power grab."

Greene defended herself ahead of the vote in a speech on the House floor and attempted to distance herself from the dangerous and debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, which she has previously embraced.

The congresswoman said that after "seeing things in the news that didn't make sense to me," she "stumbled across" QAnon at the end of 2017.

Greene said that she became "very interested" in the conspiracy theory and began posting about it on Facebook and talking about it, adding that throughout 2018 she was "upset about things" and felt she could not trust the government.

"The problem with that is though is I was allowed to believe things that weren't true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret," she said. Greene also said that she believes "9/11 absolutely happened" and "school shootings are absolutely real and every child that is lost, those families mourn it."