JUST IN: In 407-23 vote, House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hatred.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup in Washington on March 6, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Rebecca Shabad, Alex Moe, Garrett Haake and Kasie Hunt
Ahead of the vote, members from both sides of the aisle expressed frustration on the House floor with the measure while a number of Democrats who were integral to negotiating the resolution's text defended it. "Even if you gave that member every benefit of the doubt — that she had no idea what she was doing — why now wouldn't she be apologizing?" he asked."I don’t believe she is naive. I believe she knows exactly what she is doing.
"All of us must remember that as members of Congress, as president of the United States, that our words are weightier once we cross the threshold into Congress and indeed they weigh a ton when someone becomes the president of the United States," Pelosi said. "These words have a history and a cultural impact that may have been unknown to her," Pelosi said. Asked if Omar should apologize, the speaker said,"It's up to her to explain, but I do not believe that she understood the full weight of the words."
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