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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said impeaching President Joe Biden will "be easy."
The controversial Georgia Republican has made repeated calls for the president's impeachment since he took office.
"Throwback to January 12, 2021. I will never forget voting NO against Nancy Pelosi's political assassination attempt by impeaching President Trump with ZERO evidence," she wrote on Twitter on Monday alongside video of her remarks on the House floor that day before former President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
"We will impeach Biden with proof. It will be easy," she added.
Greene also said Republicans would impeach Biden if they win back the House in Tuesday's midterm elections at a Monday night campaign rally headlined by Trump in Vandalia, Ohio.
"We can impeach [Homeland Security] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas, we can impeach [Attorney General] Merrick Garland and we can and we will impeach Joe Biden," she told the crowd, eliciting cheers.
Greene's reasons for seeking to impeach Biden and the other two officials were not immediately clear. Biden appeared to acknowledge last week that he faces the threat of impeachment if Republicans gain control of Congress in the midterm elections.
Potential impeachment inquiries could focus on the business dealings of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and other matters.
Some Republicans want to impeach Mayorkas over what they see as his failure to deal with problems along the U.S.-Mexico border, while some critics have accused the Department of Justice, which Garland leads, of wrongly treating some parents as extremists.
Republicans would not need a majority in the Senate to impeach Biden. A simple majority is needed in the House to pass articles of impeachment but a two-thirds Senate majority is required to convict and remove a president.
Meanwhile, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has said Greene would be allowed back on committees if she is re-elected and Republicans win back the House.
House Democrats stripped Greene of her committee assignments in February last year for spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.
In an interview with CNN, McCarthy said there would be no restrictions on which committee Greene could serve on.
She has previously said she wants a seat on the House Oversight Committee, which would play an important role in GOP-led investigations if Republicans control the House.
McCarthy, who would have a say in handing out assignments, told CNN: "She's going to have committees to serve on, just like every other member and every other member goes through a steering committee looking at the best places to serve. Members request different committees and as we go through the steering committee, we'll look at it.
"I'm one person on the steering committee. The steering committee will decide... but Marjorie Greene is going to have committees. She's duly elected by her district and has a right to serve."
He added: "She can put through the committees she wants, just like any other member in our conference that gets elected."
Greene responded to the exchange on Twitter, writing: "The question CNN should be asking: Will all Democrats be back on their committees?"
It comes after Greene at the weekend said it would be "impossible" for her to lose her House seat to Democratic opponent Marcus Flowers.
"I bet other Democrat candidates could have used some of that $15 million that Marcus Flowers got, and maybe those Dem donors would have sent their money to other Dems, but shamefully no one told them it's literally impossible for Marcus Flowers to win," she wrote.
Greene is "very likely" to win re-election in Georgia's 14th congressional district, according to polling website FiveThirtyEight, which gives her a 99 in 100 chance of victory against Flowers.
Republicans are favored to win the House, according to FiveThirtyEight's forecast, with an 84 in 100 chance of winning.
Greene's campaign has been contacted for additional comment.
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