Just about the only drama today surrounding the @mtgreenee cmte vote is whether she in any way says out loud what she told her colleagues behind closed doors last night -- that she regretted her past remarks.

And we're now about to find out!

Greene on the House floor: "You only know me by how ... the mainstream media is portraying me. .... What you need to know about me is I'm a very regular American, just like the people I represent in my district, and most people across the country."

"I wasn't a political person, until I found a candidate that I really liked, and his name is Donald J. Trump. ... He was someone I could relate tom, someone that I enjoyed his plain talk."

"I stumbled across something... called Qanon. ... I got very interested in it, so I posted about it on Facebook. I wrote about it, I talked about it, I asked questions about it, and then more information came from it...."

"But you see, here's the problem -- throughout 2018, because I was upset about things and didn't trust the government really... I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what I regret."

"If it weren't for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today, and you couldn't point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. Because I've lived a very good life that I'm proud of."

"School shootings are absolutely real, and every child that is lost, those families mourn it... I know the fear that David Hogg had that day, I know the fear that these kids have...."

"I also want to tell you, 9/11 absolutely happened. I remember that day, crying all day long, watching it on the news. And it's a tragedy for anyone to say it didn't happen.... I also want to tell you that we've got to do better."

"Big media companies can take teeny tiny pieces of words that I've said, that you have said any of us, and can portray us as someone that we're not. And that is wrong. Cancel culture is a real thing. It is very real...."

"During my campaign, I never said any of these things, since I have been elected for Congress. These were words of the past, and these things do not represent me, they do not represent my district, and they do not represent my values."

"I'm a passionate person. I'm a competitor. I'm a fighter. I will work with you for good things for the people of this country. But the things I will not stand for is abortion, I think it's the worst thing this country has ever committed..."

"If this Congress is to tolerate members that condone riots that have hurt American people...but yet wants to condemn me and crucify me in the public square for words that I said, and I regret, a few years ago then I think we're in a real big problem, a very big problem."

"Will we allow ourselves to be addicted to hate and hating one another" I hope not, because that's not the future I want for my children, and it's not the future I want for any of your children." And @mttgreenee yields.

> @RepMcGovern responds: "To equate the media to QAnon is beyond the pale."
McGovern goes on to recount Greene's statements in 2019 and 2020.
"I did not hear an apology or denouncement for the claim, the insinuation that political opponents should be violently dealt with...."

"I didn't hear anybody apologize or retract the anti-Semitic & Islamophobic remarks that had been made, that had been posted, over and over and over again. The gentlewoman's campaign has profited off of these hurtful remarks & these dangerous statements... I just point that out."

More @RepMcGovern: "What we just heard from Ms. Greene was not an apology. And if that was the speech that was given last night at the Republican conference, I guess my question would be: And that got a standing ovation?"

"I didn't hear an apology for the incredibly dangerous and hurtful remarks that she's made. I didn't hear an explanation for why she's still fundraising off of these terrible things. ... I don't know what my colleagues found so convincing."

"I stand here today still deeply, deeply troubled, and offended by the things that she has posted and the things that she has said, and still not taken responsibility for, and still not apologized..."

"The idea of coming to the floor, and basically saying, well it's the media's fault, it's this person's fault or that person's fault, and that the American media is equivalent to the violent Qanon extremists. ... Just when you think you've heard everything, you hear that."

More @RepMcGovern: "I don't understand what is complicated here. ... We know, we know the result of these violent conspiracy theorists. We saw that on Jan. 6. We know what what it leads to. I don't ever want to see that again. And we all should make clear where we stand on this."