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Al Green censure highlights increased appetite for retribution in House
The Hill ^ | 03/08/25 12:00 PM ET | by Emily Brooks

Posted on 03/08/2025 10:24:55 AM PST by RandFan

A formal House reprimand didn’t contain the fallout from Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) interrupting President Trump’s speech to Congress, showing how petty fights and demands for retribution have become an increasingly prominent part of business on the House floor.

The House Freedom Caucus is asking Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold a vote next week on removing Green from his committees. And Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) could force a vote on another measure to remove Democrats from committees if they were part of the group that sang “We Shall Overcome” and got in a yelling match with Republicans on the House floor during Green’s censure.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in response called the Republicans “malignant clowns” and called Ogles a “complete and total fraud,” warning: “Don’t make me expose you to folks who don’t know you.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: algreen; andyogle; emilybrooks; hakeemjeffries; housefreedomcaucus; mikejohnson; minorityleader; noitdoesnt; prestonbrooks; speakermikejohnson; thehill; theneanderthal; theshill; weshallovercome
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1 posted on 03/08/2025 10:24:55 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan
YO!

LIEberals!

IT'S PAYBACK TIME!

2 posted on 03/08/2025 10:28:52 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
From the FRchives:

3 posted on 03/08/2025 10:37:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: RandFan
Since he's named, I'll post it again.


4 posted on 03/08/2025 10:43:12 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Green was censured for disrupting Trump’s speech to Congress.
<><>now the House Freedom Caucus is asking to remove Green from his committees.
<><>Rep. Andy Ogles wants a vote to remove Democrats from committees
<><>Dems yelling on the House floor during a Congressional proceeding-—Green’s censure.
<><>and were part of the group that stupidly sang “We Shall Overcome.”


5 posted on 03/08/2025 10:45:53 AM PST by Liz
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To: RandFan

The Hill is nothing more than a leftist propaganda rag for democrats. Despite all the crap the democrats in the House pulled when they had the majority, the Hill never called them out — because they are their propaganda wing.


6 posted on 03/08/2025 10:50:39 AM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: RandFan
The same fragile and delicate Emily Brooks who wrote this POS article would have been outraged if Republicans behaved the same way during a speech by a Democrat president. And like the arrogant #@#@!!%#! that she is, she has a "Heads I win, tails you lose attitude."

During Trump's first term - and ever since - the Dems have been looking for ways to ruin him, jail him, and even eliminate him, but when Trump tries to restore a semblance of balance in the FBI and DOJ, HE is the bad guy.
7 posted on 03/08/2025 10:50:54 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: RandFan

Hakeem should go …
Al Green should be behind bars… in a zoo.


8 posted on 03/08/2025 10:51:16 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: RandFan

It is time to make public the Congressional sex coverup payment files.

Let us see who is who.


9 posted on 03/08/2025 10:51:59 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: RandFan

The only reason that the word “retribution” is being bandied about is because the Dems behavior over the past 8 years is deserving of a reckoning.


10 posted on 03/08/2025 10:52:27 AM PST by No Party Affiliation
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To: RandFan

An old man shaking a cane is the perfect image for todays Democrat party and its ideas:

LAME

Someone should meme it up.


11 posted on 03/08/2025 10:53:33 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: RandFan

It appears to me to be a restoration of sanity, civility, and decorum which means that loony left shenanigans will no longer be tolerated.


12 posted on 03/08/2025 10:54:07 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: FreedomPoster

Some faces of the destructive, evil Democrat Crime Syndicate collective. FACE-WORDS-DEEDS.

Thanks for posting.


13 posted on 03/08/2025 10:56:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: RandFan

Increased appetite for retribution? Yeah, because the J6 Committee was all on the up-and-up.

Pfffft....


14 posted on 03/08/2025 10:56:57 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: RandFan
If it were allowed by their rules, here is what I would do to anyone who is censured in Congress:

I would temporarily remove the person from committees on the condition that they use the free time to return to their district and hold three in-person town hall meetings to hear from their constituents and learn how they feel about the behaviors that led to the censure.

Once they complete three in-person town hall meetings, they can return to their chamber and resume their committee assignments.

It is up to them whether or not they heed the sentiments of their voters by changing their behavior going forward -- assuming that their constituents were embarrassed by their antics.

-PJ

15 posted on 03/08/2025 10:59:39 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: RandFan

Passing a censure is easier than passing legislation.


16 posted on 03/08/2025 11:00:22 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: RandFan

No, it doesn’t.

One censure for cause does not signal an appetite for censure


17 posted on 03/08/2025 11:00:59 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: FreedomPoster

The Dingleberries Gang.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 11:08:51 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (SCOTUS stuck it to Americans again. Africa and other failed communist dumps are our responsibility.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Require they use the free time to return to their district and hold three in-person town hall meetings to hear from their constituents and learn how they feel about the behaviors that led to the censure.

Constituent in districts of some of these knuckleheads might well demand more such behavior

19 posted on 03/08/2025 11:08:54 AM PST by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: RandFan

If it’s retribution, explain why 10 dems voted for the censure.


20 posted on 03/08/2025 11:12:22 AM PST by DPMD
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