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Bonamici promised to vouch for additional funding for medical supplies and continued diplomatic assistance via Congress. She urged people to continue to tune in to news coverage of the conflict.

“We know hundreds have already been killed, including civilians,” Bonamici said. “It’s hard to watch, but watch we must, because we need to know that brutal terrorism is happening there.”

In a statement released minutes after the vote, Bonamici said she voted to remove McCarthy because he “has consistently empowered his conference’s most extreme members.”

“He has stood behind devastating cuts to public education and other government programs that help working families, like SNAP, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and Head Start,” she said.