Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley told her fellow members of the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that a motion she was introducing during a hearing was “pretty straightforward”: The committee, she said, should conduct oversight regarding a federal agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a woman in Minneapolis who was killed in her car earlier in the day.

But the motion failed, with every Republican on the panel voting against it.

Pressley (D-Mass.) introduced the motion during a hearing regarding a fraud scandal in the state, hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Good, who was in the driver’s seat of her car as multiple officers approached her. Good was acting as a legal observer, according to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), monitoring ICE actions following the Trump administration’s surge of federal agents into Minnesota, in part to target members of the Somali community.

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    Yeah I was wondering how long it would take this audience to blame the Democrats for this.

    One, two, three . . Three comments.

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        Only one two at the moment. I must have jinxed it. Wait - when does Eastern Europe come online?

        Shhh! Just sit tight. They’re deciding if it’s worth it.