At the House Rules Committee on Thursday, Greene’s amendment got skewered by Rep. Jim McGovern, the top Democrat on the panel, when there was a question of whether any more members wished to testify before going into recess.

“Is there no more witnesses? I was hoping Marjorie Taylor Greene would come and talk about her space lasers amendment,” McGovern said. “Anyway, but she’s not here.”

Thursday’s amendment quarrel appeared to spill over from a House Oversight hearing a day earlier, when Moskowitz called out Greene for claiming Nazism was rife in Ukraine, a frequent Putin talking point.

Greene pointed to a 2021 Time story about the online recruitment strategies of a Ukrainian white-supremacist militia.

“It’s amazing to me that just in a few years’ time, it’s now considered misinformation to talk about the Nazis in Ukraine,” said Greene, who in 2022 spoke at a conference organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Mainstream outlets such as NBC News have published pieces about the problem of neo-Nazism and white nationalism in Ukraine, while debunking Putin’s claim the invasion was in part driven by a desire for the “denazification” of Ukraine.

Moskowitz, at the hearing, told Greene to stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler.

“I say this as someone whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust… There are no concentration camps in Ukraine… They’re not trying to erase a people, the Ukrainians,” Moskowitz said.

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