News Analysis
House GOP members will ask all of their colleagues to make their position publicly known on socialism.
On Jan. 26, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) and House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 9, titled “Denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
Salazar and Scalise intend to bring the resolution to the House floor for a vote this week. It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine that the motion hopes to put any Republicans, Democrats, or Independents who identify either socially or economically with far-leftist ideals in an uncomfortable position with this legislative initiative.
What Say Ye Democrats?
And within the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, there is a subgroup that Republicans may be particularly keen on asking their opinion on socialism; and that is the nine members of the ultra-progressive “Squad”: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Summer Lee (D-Penn.), and Greg Casar (D-Texas)….