Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'I'm Sorry For Saying All Those Things'

ACROSS GEORGIA — After the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her assigned House committees Thursday, Greene held a press conference just before noon Friday on Capitol Hill to address the vote and to apologize for her past actions.

The vote for her committee removals — supported by 221 Democrats and only 11 Republicans — follows backlash, criticism and calls for Greene's resignation due to the Republican's history of supporting controversial conspiracy theories, including QAnon, and her social media support for threats of violence against House leaders.

Greene was slated to serve on the House's Education and Labor Committee as well as the Budget Committee.

"I'm sorry for saying all of those things that are wrong and offensive, and I sincerely mean that," Greene said toward the end of the press conference. "I'm happy to say that. I think it's good to say when we've done something wrong."

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Greene said her removal from the two committees took her voice and her district's voice away, and called Democratic lawmakers hypocritical for the action as she said some Democratic lawmakers have been wrapped up in controversy.

"They kicked me off of my committees. After spending a year promoting, supporting, funding on ActBlue, BLM [Black Lives Matter]; defending, lying and calling these 'peaceful protests' when there's buildings burning in the background and sharing bail bond links to get the criminals out of jail. But they want to kick me off committees for social media posts that were conspiracy theories," Greene said. "That's pretty hypocritical."

However, she also said she felt "freed" after the vote and after she gave a 10-minute speech in which she walked back her previous statements alleging that school shootings were fake and that 9/11 was a hoax and an "inside job."

"I feel free because you know what's happening on these committees? You see, we have basically a tyrannically-controlled government right now: the Democrats," Greene said Friday. "They don't care what Republicans have to say; they don't care about what our districts and our voters have to say. They only care about pushing their socialist agenda through. They only care about taking away our freedoms. That's not right."

Other Republican lawmakers referred to the Democrat-controlled House's removal of a Republican legislator from their committees as a "partisan power grab," including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California). McCarthy said a vote like this sets a dangerous precedent; however, he still said he denounced the views expressed in Greene's posts.

"If that's the new standard; if people are held to what they are said prior to even being in this House; if majority party gets to decide who sits on what other committees, I hope you keep that standard, because we have a long list you can work within your own [party]," McCarthy said to the Democratic side of the chamber.

At one point during Thursday's debate, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland walked to the GOP side of the chamber carrying a poster of a Facebook post from Greene last year. “Squad’s Worst Nightmare" was displayed at the bottom of a photo of Greene, which showed her holding an AR-15 firearm, next to collaged pictures of three of the four Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — who’ve been nicknamed “The Squad.”

WATCH: @LeaderHoyer during debate on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA): "I urge my colleagues to look at this image."

Rep. Hoyer then walks image around House floor to be seen by other members.

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"[Greene] claimed that we are here today only because of some things she wrote online before she ever ran for Congress, as if one's moral slate is wiped clean when one becomes a candidate for office," Hoyer said in the debate Thursday. "Regardless, the conduct we are judging today continued to occur even after Representative Greene became a candidate and even after she was elected."

Greene said media outlets on both sides of the political aisle are taking part in dividing the nation. She claimed left-leaning outlets are "teaching people to hate people like me and [former] President [Donald] Trump" and right-leaning outlets are "teaching people to hate" those like Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Pelosi.

"It goes both ways, doesn't it? But teaching people to hate and addicting them to it is killing our country," Greene said.

While multiple Republican lawmakers denounced the views Greene expressed in the past and her ties to QAnon conspiracy theories, most still disagreed with the House resolution to remove her from her committees.

"I had the greatest opportunity yesterday and I'm so grateful for it. I got to say what I had done wrong, and do you know how freeing that is? I'm not kidding, I seriously feel blessed by God because I got to do it on a world stage," Greene said. "The few bad actions of some do not define the many, and that's the truth."

View the full press conference below on C-SPAN: