The House is expected to take up a resolution from the No. 3 House Democrat, Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.), who is a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

"White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said in the interview. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”



Clyburn noted that the resolution came a day before the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and invoked a line the civil rights leader's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": that people will have to "repent, not just for the hateful words and deeds of bad people, but for the appalling silence of good people."



"I call on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in breaking the deafening silence and letting our resounding condemnation be heard," Clyburn said on the House floor.

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Earlier Monday, two House Democrats unveiled resolutions to censure King. Clyburn's measure is not expected to go as far as a formal censure, Democratic aides said.