House Members Could Be Asked If They Denounce Socialism

News Analysis
House GOP members will ask all of their colleagues to make their position publicly known on socialism.
On Jan. 26, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) and House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 9, titled “Denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
Salazar and Scalise intend to bring the resolution to the House floor for a vote this week. It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine that the motion hopes to put any Republicans, Democrats, or Independents who identify either socially or economically with far-leftist ideals in an uncomfortable position with this legislative initiative.
What Say Ye Democrats?
And within the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, there is a subgroup that Republicans may be particularly keen on asking their opinion on socialism; and that is the nine members of the ultra-progressive “Squad”: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Summer Lee (D-Penn.), and Greg Casar (D-Texas)….}