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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to continue to require members of the House to wear face masks on the living room floor to steps taken by the House of Representatives. Nazis to dominate the Jewish population during the Holocaust.
This happened this week during an interview on a conservative podcast.
In a conversation with David Brody on Real America's Voice's "The Water Cooler," Greene attacked Pelosí and accused her of being a hypocrite for asking members of the Republican Party to prove they had all been vaccinated before allowing them to members are in the chamber of the House of Representatives without a mask.
“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put on trains and taken to camera chambers. gas in Nazi Germany, ”Greene said.
"And this is exactly the kind of abuse Nancy Pelosi talks about."
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Jewish groups were quick to condemn Greene's comments.
“You can't compare health-related restrictions to yellow stars, gas chambers, and other Nazi atrocities.
Such comparisons degrade the Holocaut and contaminate American political discourse, ”the American Jewish Congress said in a tweet in response to Greene's comments.
"Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize."
You can never compare health-related restrictions with yellow stars, gas chambers & other Nazi atrocities.
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Such comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize.https: //t.co/pdU8H8h2tO
- American Jewish Congress (@AJCongress) May 21, 2021
Greene's office did not immediately respond to CNN's question about his comments.
A CNN poll of members of Congress found that all Congressional Democrats in both the House and the Senate are fully vaccinated.
In the Senate, 92% of Republicans say they are vaccinated, but only 44.8% of House Republicans would be willing to say whether they received the necessary vaccinations.
More than 100 Republicans in the House have yet to disclose their immunization status.
That prompted Pelosi to drop the mask-wearing mandate in place, despite new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stating that vaccinated people can safely be indoors without wearing a mask.
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"We have a responsibility to ensure that the chamber of the House of Representatives is not a Petri dish because of the selfishness of some not to get vaccinated," said Pelosi.
Greene, who has declined to reveal his personal status on the vaccine, said Pelosi's heavy hand is unnecessary.
"This is a woman who doesn't care about people's safety," Greene said on the podcast.
"This is a woman who is very focused on her own power and control."
Pelosi's office declined to comment on Greene's comments.
Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle reacted to Greene's comments on Saturday.
"This is crazy," Wyoming representative Liz Cheney tweeted about Greene's comments.
Cheney, who was ousted from her Republican leadership position in the House of Representatives earlier this month over criticism of former President Donald Trump, publicly warned that the current direction of the Republican party is "dangerous."
For his part, Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who is one of the fiercest critics of Trump within the Republican party, and who has previously spoken out against Greene, tweeted "Absolutely sick," and shared the same clip of the Greene's comments.
Democratic Representatives Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and David Cicilline of Rhode Island tweeted their criticism of Greene's comments.
"As anti-Semitic violence increases, it is disgusting that a Republican member of Congress is comparing mask requirements to the Holocaust," Pascrell tweeted.
Cicilline called Greene "a troubled person who is not fit to serve in Congress."
CNN's Rachel Janfaza contributed to this report.
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