Dems Now Regretting Skirting Norms to Boost Republicans From Committees

What did the Democrats say?At a House Ethics Committee hearing, Rep. Joe Neguse (D‑Colo.) admitted that Republicans were right when they warned two years ago that removing GOP lawmakers from committees would later come back to bite Democrats.In February 2021, the House stripped Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R‑Ga.) from her committees. Nine months later, Rep. Paul Gosar (R‑Ariz.) was stripped of his assignments and censured.“I do concede that some of the warnings about the dangers,” said Neguse of removing Greene and Gosar, “were prescient.“Moreover, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Susan Wild (D‑Penn.), admitted that “I don’t think that it was the correct process” to remove the Republican lawmakers without going through traditional Ethics Committee procedures, the Jewish Insider reported. She disclosed that she shared conversations with colleagues at the time worrying that removing Greene and Gosar would establish bad precedents.Additionally, Rep. Brad Sherman (D‑Calif. …