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00:00Georgia seek recognition
00:02Mr. Speaker pursuant to clause 2 a 1 of rule 9
00:06I seek recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house
00:12The form of the resolution is as follows
00:16recognized
00:17centuring representative Ilhan Omar of Somali
00:21I mean, Minnesota
00:22Whereas elected members of Congress take an oath to bear true faith and allegiance to the United States
00:29without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion
00:33Whereas representative Ilhan Omar took an oath of allegiance to the United States upon becoming a citizen
00:40Declaring I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all
00:45allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince
00:49Potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen
00:57Whereas on January 27th
00:592024
01:00Representative Omar gave remarks at an event in Minneapolis in which she made treasonous statements
01:07whereas representative Omar said she has spoken to many Somalians who asked her to intercede for the Somali government by
01:14pressuring the United States government into certain actions
01:18Whereas representative Omar assured the Somali and she spoke to the US government will only do what?
01:25Somalians in the US tell them to do they will do what we want and nothing else
01:31They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia
01:37Whereas representative Omar continued for as long as I am in US Congress
01:43Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others
01:50Sleep in comfort knowing I am here to protect the interest of Somalia
01:56from inside the US system
01:59whereas George Washington warned in his farewell address of
02:041796 to guard against the imposters of
02:08Pretended patriotism and further declared citizens by birth or choice of a common country
02:15That country has a right to concentrate your affections the name of American which belongs to you in your
02:23national capacity must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any
02:30appellation derived from local discriminations
02:33Whereas these statements by representative Omar clearly violate the oath
02:37She took as an elected member of Congress to defend and protect the United States
02:43Constitution whereas representative Omar has exhibited the treasonous tendencies George Washington
02:49warned about and her
02:51actions must be condemned by all members of Congress who adhere to the oath they took upon assuming office and
02:59Whereas by openly admitting her efforts to advance Somalia's interest
03:04Using her position as the United States
03:08Representative representative Omar has revealed herself to be a foreign agent
03:12Acting on behalf of a foreign government now, therefore be it resolved that representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota be censured
03:21Representative Ilhan Omar forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure
03:30representative Ilhan Omar be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the speaker and
03:36Representative Ilhan Omar be and is hereby removed from the Committee of the Budget and the Committee on Education and the Workforce
04:07John Poston of Lakeshore Dwayne Quam of Byron and Jeremy Menson of Lake Crystal
04:13We are making these this request on three direct grounds first
04:18Representative Omar improperly and deliberately filed for a tax status for which she was not qualified
04:25in a legal action in both federal and state law
04:29The Minnesota campaign finance board found on June 6th of this year that she illegally used campaign funds
04:35To pay a law firm to review her tax records
04:39The campaign finance board exposed crystal clear
04:43probable cause for a tax fraud or tax evasion
04:47investigation when they discovered that represent Omar filed as
04:51Married and joint in filing jointly with mr. Ahmad Hersey in 2014 in 2015
04:59During those years. She was legally married to mr. Ahmad Elmi
05:03Did the legal did the illegal filing produce a lower tax liability for the couple
05:09Did her illegal tax filing bring her tax exemption for which she was not legally qualified?
05:16Usually people choose the tax filing status that yields them the lowest tax liability
05:23Also, the board shared that the couple filed jointly during two specific years
05:27Ilhan Omar and Ahmad Hersey have been together as a couple for 17 years
05:33Given her record of crimes and violations of so many laws it may be worth evaluating her her claims of status
05:40in those other years as well
05:44Second represent Omar lived together simultaneously with her first and second husbands at the same addresses in
05:50Minneapolis in Minnesota and North Dakota in
05:542009 through 2008
05:562009 through
05:582011
05:59The tax enforcers may need to check if she used an illegal tax filing status and obtained tax deductions
06:07Including standard deduction levels for which she was not qualified in those years
06:12third
06:13We know that represent Omar took improper kickbacks from three, Minnesota colleges in
06:192017 when she oversaw their state budgets in
06:232017
06:24Under campaign pressure. She returned those kickbacks in 2018
06:29It is worth checking to see if she reported the kickbacks as income in 2017 or deducted the paybacks as expenses in 2018
06:38five grounds for an investigation include corruption and public in public office and
06:43tax evasions on grounds of illegal filing status and proper deductions
06:48concealed income from kickbacks and improper claims for expenses
06:53We are also aware of represent Omar's pattern of improper conduct
06:57She has been fined by the campaign finance board board for diverting campaign funds for an unpermitted political trip to Orlando
07:04She has been directed to pay back her expenses for uncovered political trips to Boston, New York
07:10Philadelphia Chicago
07:12Florida and Washington DC
07:15She has been punished for conversion of campaign funds to pay for personal legal and accounting services
07:22She has flouted laws
07:23Regarding the filing of her personal financial data in a way that distorted the political campaign process
07:30On June 25th. I asked my congresswoman Angie Craig to launch an investigation into these improprieties
07:37That went nowhere
07:39She said do it yourself
07:42So on June 23rd, I asked excuse me on July 23rd
07:46I asked the US House Ethics Committee to investigate representative Omar that request is currently being reviewed by the Office of Congressional Ethics
07:55On that same day
07:56I launched Omar truth comm in an effort to rally Minnesotans and Americans to help bring political pressure to bring about a
08:04congressional investigation
08:06After two weeks, we have over
08:0844,000 citizens expressing their strong desire to bring about the full investigation and the list is grown
08:16I will be adding today's request to the facts available on Omar truth calm
08:23Today I and nine other representatives are asking the nonpartisan federal and state tax enforcers to open investigations
08:30We are simply asking them to do their jobs
08:47I
08:49Think certainly there's precedent and I think it's incumbent upon us Mary
08:55Lawmakers the media and others when they see very clear blatant violations of our laws to find every way we can to appeal to
09:03The people who can investigate and prosecute those laws and that's what we're doing here today
09:07I
09:15Don't think so, you know, I guess the fact that we each represent 40,000 people might be helpful and it might be something that
09:24that those individuals take under consideration, but this this gives us an ability I think to in an organized
09:33Deliberative fashion say we have asked the Minnesota Department of Revenue to do their job
09:38We have asked the IRS to do their job before we got here today
09:41We don't know if they have been fully informed and appraised of these facts
09:46After today, we can be sure that they've been fully informed and appraised of these facts
09:58Would you like him
10:03Well, he would have a lot more sway, yeah
10:06You know, I I don't know that it's really our job to make that request to the president
10:11It's I think he is aware of what is going on. I expect he is
10:16and
10:18You know this effort today may make him more aware of some of those details and it'll be his decision
10:22As he looks at the facts and the circumstances in Washington to make that to make that call
10:28Is that part of your goal today to get more of his attention?
10:31I think it's our goal to get his attention and every Americans attention about
10:38What is going on here?
10:41It seems to me that
10:43that if this was a conservative Republican that we would already have action going forward and
10:51The fact that no one is above the law needs to be remembered here and our agencies need to do their work
11:01There's a lot of questions about President Trump's home taxes
11:10Well, I think people have asked President Trump to bring his taxes forward for political reasons I don't know that there's been any