House expected to pass Ilhan Omar’s legislation to combat Islamophobia after clash with Lauren Boebert

(CNN) — The House volition ballot Tuesday connected Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s authorities to make a peculiar envoy to combat Islamophobia, a week aft progressives introduced a abstracted solution to portion Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of her committee assignments pursuing her anti-Muslim comments calling the Minnesota Democrat a terrorist.

The measure would code the rise successful incidents of Islamophobia worldwide and would inactive request to walk the Senate earlier it could spell to President Joe Biden’s table to beryllium signed into law. It was antecedently sitting successful the House Foreign Affairs Committee for months but was voted retired of committee past week arsenic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced expanding unit from members wrong her ain enactment to take aggressive enactment against Boebert for her racist remarks.

The Biden medication said successful a connection it supported this legislation.

“Religious state is simply a cardinal quality right. This state is enshrined successful the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is besides portion of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Our country’s committedness to defending state of religion and content goes backmost centuries, and the Administration powerfully believes that radical of each faiths and backgrounds should beryllium treated with adjacent dignity and respect astir the world,” the connection said.

The ballot connected the measure successful the House comes aft progressive Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced a resolution, cosigned by different progressives, that would portion the Colorado Republican of her committee assignments if passed.

Last week, Pelosi dodged erstwhile she was asked if she supported that solution and repeated her telephone for GOP enactment to punish members of their conference.

The telephone to person Boebert removed from her committee assignments for her arguable comments is not made successful isolation. Threatening unit is the crushed wherefore Democrats stripped Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona of their committee assignments earlier this twelvemonth aft incendiary comments oregon actions they made.

Omar said past week she was “very confident” Pelosi would instrumentality “decisive action” against Boebert implicit the Colorado Republican’s anti-Muslim remarks.

“I’ve had a speech with the talker and I’m precise assured that she volition instrumentality decisive enactment adjacent week,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper connected “State of the Union.”