Posted on 03/06/2025 8:46:06 AM PST by bitt
After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ejected Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) from President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, the House formally censured Green on Thursday.
Democrats had tried to block the measure but failed. The measure passed with Republican backing and support from 10 Democrats.
The ten Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Jim Costa (D-Calif.), Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.). Green and freshman Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) voted “present.”
"Al Green's childish outburst exposed the chaos and dysfunction within the Democrat party since President Trump's overwhelming win in November and his success in office thus far. It is not surprising 198 Democrats refused to support Green's censure given their history of radical, inflammatory rhetoric fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said.
Fox News Digital has more.
Republicans raced to introduce competing resolutions to censure Green on Wednesday, with three separate texts being drafted within hours of each other.
Fox News Digital was told that Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., whose resolution got a vote on the House floor Thursday morning, had reached out to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., about working on a censure resolution immediately after Trump's speech ended on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the House Freedom Caucus had aimed to make good on a threat to censure any Democrats who protested Trump's speech, and Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, crafted his own censure resolution against Green that got more than 30 House GOP co-sponsors.
But Newhouse took to the House floor on Wednesday afternoon to deem his resolution "privileged," a maneuver forcing House leaders to take up a bill within two legislative days.
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Hey, we got ten semi-sane democrats !
10 Democrats voted with the Republicans so there not enough votes to expel. Censure is better then nothing
Get on the phone RIGHT NOW and call your Rep -
DEMAND to know who was in the mob disrupting a serious House proceeding.......
as the censure of Trump heckler Texas Democrat Al Green took place
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U.S. House switchboard operator.
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Green will do something crazy again—he is the leftist gift that keeps on giving.
- Barack Obama, on political circumstance.
Oooooo.....censured.
Big deal.
“Bad boy. Don’t do that again.”
Means NOTHING.
They didn’t even put him in the choose your fighter ad they just put out
The strategy of Green and freshman Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) was to vote “present.”
“10 Democrats voted with the Republicans so there not enough votes to expel”
Expulsion would have been great, but this never had any chance of turning out like the Santos fiasco from last term.
Green or possibly someone even worse would win the special election in TX-9 (D+26 district) without even breaking a sweat except in the primary.
Glad to see a Republican Congressman explicitly calling out their counterparts’ Trump Derangement Syndrome. #TDS is real.
Sounds like a make-work USAID job. Hopefully she will be unemployed soon.
It would have been funnier if Al lead the entire House in the Box Tops’ rendition of “Sweet Cream Ladies”.
Should they have the Sargent at Arms take him out on the capitol steps and publicly behead him for Les Mageste?
Sorry but that not this works. Expulsion requires a 2/3rds vote. The Dems will not vote for that.
A congressional censure is about as useful as a sternly worded letter from Trey Gowdy.
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