众议院议长南希·佩洛西星期四对记者说，她对国会议员面临的威胁感到关切，并表示“敌人在众议院内部。”
佩洛西说，鉴于自1月6日国会大厦起义以来最近的威胁，国会可能必须通过一项法案，提供更多的钱来保障成员的安全。
佩洛西说:“当敌人在众议院时，我们可能需要一个补充措施来加强成员的安全——除了外面发生的事情之外，成员们还担心这种威胁。”
当被问及她所说的“敌人在里面”是什么意思时，她回答说:“我们有国会议员想把枪放在地板上，并威胁要对国会其他成员使用暴力。”
美国广播公司新闻部联系了佩洛西的办公室，要求进一步澄清她指的是哪些成员，但没有立即回复。
她的评论是在共和党人最近几天试图把枪放在众议院后发表的，尽管在众议院门口增加了一个金属探测器。一些共和党人完全绕过了金属探测器。
美国有线电视新闻网的文件，在一个报告共和党众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林说。据称“喜欢”她2019年Facebook页面上的一条评论，这条评论威胁到佩洛西和其他民主党人的生命。
中航新闻无法确认“赞”，因为帖子已被删除。
格林最近也被分配到众议院教育和劳工委员会，尽管她支持阴谋论，声称在桑迪胡克和帕克兰发生了大规模的校园枪击事件。
加利福尼亚州佩洛西抨击共和党领导层将委员会任务交给格林。
佩洛西说:“我担心的是众议院的共和党领导层，他们愿意忽视、忽视这些声明，当她嘲笑桑迪胡克小学杀害幼儿的行为时，当她嘲笑马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯杀害青少年的行为时，就把她分配到教育委员会。”
“他们可能在想什么？或者是对他们可能做的事情想得太多了，”她补充道。“简直骇人听闻。”
加州共和党众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡也表示，他将与格林就她对那些威胁性社交媒体帖子的支持进行“对话”。目前还不清楚两人是否谈过话。
周四，当被问及对此有何评论时，格林在她的办公室提供的一份声明中说，“民主党人和他们在虚假新闻媒体中的发言人将不遗余力地击败保守的共和党人。他们在追杀我，因为我威胁到他们的社会主义目标。他们跟着我，因为他们知道我代表人民，而不是政治家。
“他们在追杀我，因为像特朗普总统一样，我将永远捍卫保守的价值观，”她继续说道。“他们想带我出去，因为我代表人民。他们绝对讨厌它。”
她没有回答一个关于她同意社交媒体帖子的报道的问题，该报道称桑迪胡克学校枪击案是在上演。
在早些时候发布在推特上的一份声明中，格林没有否认她喜欢帖子，并回复了评论，但声称许多人已经运行了她的脸书页面。
加利福尼亚州众议员吉米·戈麦斯(Jimmy Gomez)周三宣布，计划提出一项决议，要求格林因其社交媒体帖子被国会开除。
戈麦斯周三在一份声明中说:“似乎这不足以扩大阴谋论，即9月11日的袭击是内部工作，马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中的大规模枪击事件是在上演，最近的一系列媒体报道现在证实，国会议员马乔里·泰勒·格林此前支持社交媒体上呼吁对众议院议长、国会议员和前总统巴拉克·奥巴马采取政治暴力的帖子。”
“这种鼓吹极端主义和煽动叛乱的行为不仅要求她立即被国会开除，而且还应该受到她所有共和党同事的强烈而明确的谴责，包括众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡和参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔。他说:“她在办公室的存在代表着对为我们政府服务的当选官员和工作人员的直接威胁，考虑到他们的安全，以及我国各地机构和公务员的安全，我呼吁我的众议院同事支持我的决议，立即将女议员马乔里·泰勒·格林从这个立法机构中免职。”
驱逐格林需要三分之二的众议院投票，才能将她从众议院除名。这将需要大约70名共和党人与所有民主党人一起就戈麦斯的措施进行投票。不太可能发生。
周四早些时候，众议院教育和劳工委员会主席、弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员鲍比·斯科特(Bobby Scott)谴责共和党在格林被分配到他的委员会一事上的领导作用。
他提到了2019年3月的一段视频，在视频中，可以看到格林跟随马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中枪击案的幸存者大卫·霍格走下华盛顿特区国会大厦外的人行道，反复问他为什么倡导枪支管制法。格林对霍格说:“你为什么支持攻击我们第二修正案权利的红旗枪支法？
“众议院共和党人已经任命了一个人加入这个委员会，他声称桑迪胡克小学20名儿童和6名教师被杀是一场骗局。斯科特说:“众议院共和党人已经任命了一个人到这个委员会，他声称在马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中杀害14名学生和3名教师是故意的。”。“众议院共和党人已经任命了一个人加入这个委员会，他追捕并痛斥了一名17岁的校园枪击事件幸存者，然后通过在社交媒体上发布来庆祝这一行为。斯科特在一份声明中说:“众议院共和党人已经任命了一个公开支持针对当选官员的暴力的人加入这个委员会。”他指的是格林。
“众议院共和党人做出了这一任命，共和党众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡必须解释具有这种背景的人如何在教育问题上代表共和党。他向学生、家长和教育工作者发出了关于共和党观点的明确信息，”他说。
Pelosi claims the 'enemy is within the House of Representatives'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that she is concerned about threats against members of Congress and suggested that the "enemy is within the House of Representatives."
Pelosi said that Congress will likely have to pass a bill that provides more money that would go toward member safety in light of recent threats in the days since the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
"We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives - a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside," Pelosi said.
When asked to expand on what she meant by "the enemy is within" she responded: "We have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress."
ABC News reached out to Pelosi's office for further clarification about which members she was referring to -- but did not immediately hear back.
Her comments come after Republicans have tried, in recent days, to bring their guns on the House floor, despite the addition of a metal detector at the chamber door. Some Republicans are bypassing the metal detector altogether.
CNN's KFile, in a report on her online activity, said GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., allegedly "liked" a comment on her Facebook page in 2019 that threatened Pelosi life and other Democrats.
ABC News cannot confirm the "likes" because the posts have been deleted.
Greene was also recently assigned to the House Education and Labor Committee despite her support of conspiracy theories claiming mass school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged.
PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during debate ahead of the House vote on impeachment against President Donald Trump, while wearing a mask that reads, "censored," in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 13, 2021.
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Pelosi, D-Calif., ripped into Republican leadership for giving Greene that committee assignment.
"What I'm concerned about is the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives who are willing to overlook, ignore those statements, assigning her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when she mocked the killing of teenagers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas," Pelosi said.
"What could they be thinking? Or is thinking too generous of a word for what they might be doing," she added. "It is absolutely appalling."
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has also said he will have a "conversation" with Greene over her support for those threatening social media posts. It's unclear if the two have spoken yet.
Asked for comment Thursday, Greene said in a statement provided by her office, "Democrats and their spokesmen in the Fake News Media will stop at nothing to defeat conservative Republicans. They are coming after me because I’m a threat to their goal of Socialism. They are coming after me because they know I represent the people, not the politicians.
"They are coming after me because, like President Trump, I will always defend conservative values," she continued. "They want to take me out because I represent the people. And they absolutely hate it."
She did not respond to a question about a report she agreed with a social media post saying the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged.
In an earlier statement posted to Twitter, Greene did not deny that she liked posts and replied to comments but claimed that many people have run her Facebook page.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., on Wednesday announced plans to introduce a resolution calling for Greene's expulsion from Congress over her social media posts.
“As if it weren’t enough to amplify conspiracy theories that the September 11 attacks were an inside job and the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged, a string of recent media reports has now confirmed that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had previously supported social media posts calling for political violence against the Speaker of the House, members of Congress, and former President Barack Obama,” Gomez said in a statement Wednesday.
“Such advocacy for extremism and sedition not only demands her immediate expulsion from Congress, but it also merits strong and clear condemnation from all of her Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, and it is with their safety in mind, as well as the security of institutions and public servants across our country, that I call on my House colleagues to support my resolution to immediately remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from this legislative body," he said.
It would take two-thirds of the House voting to expel Greene for her to be removed from the chamber. That would require roughly 70 Republicans to vote with all Democrats on the measure from Gomez. It is unlikely to happen.
Earlier Thursday, the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., condemned Republican leadership over Greene's assignment to his committee.
He makes reference to a March 2019 video in which Greene can be seen following David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, down a sidewalk outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., repeatedly asking him why he is advocating for gun control laws. Greene says to Hogg: “Why are you supporting red flag gun laws that attack our Second Amendment rights?
“House Republicans have appointed someone to this Committee who claimed that the killing of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. House Republicans have appointed someone to this Committee who claimed that the killing of 14 students and three teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged," Scott said. "House Republicans have appointed someone to this Committee who chased and berated a 17-year-old survivor of a mass school shooting, and then celebrated this behavior by posting it on social media. House Republicans have appointed someone to this Committee who has publicly endorsed violence against elected officials," Scott said in a statement, referring to Greene.
“House Republicans made this appointment and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy must explain how someone with this background represents the Republican party on education issues. He is sending a clear message to students, parents, and educators about the views of the Republican Party," he said.
