Washington – Republican-controlled house on Thursday voted to criticize Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for Disrupting the address of President Donald Trump In Congress on Tuesday.
The vote is 224-198, with 10 Democrats who participated in all the Republicans to approve the censorship resolution. Green and Freshman Rep. Shomari people, D-Allah. While the vote continues, the Green is sitting alone at the center of the passage.
After the vote, as the resolution he needed, green stands in the house at home while the speaker Mike Johnson, R-la., Read the censorship resolution.
Dose of Democrats, including many companion members of Congress Black Caucus, surrounded green in the well and singing “that we often told them to stop and clean the well.
Shouted in the Republicans in rooms, “Order! Order!” And two members of CBC, rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., And Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, shot to you! ”
Democrats ignore the speaker’s request, and Johnson rejected the house.
10 Democrats voted to censor the green all moderate: reps. Ami Bera and Jim Costa, both California; Ed case in Hawaii; Laura Gilllen and Tom Suozzi, both in New York; Jim Himes of Connecticut; Chrissy Houlahan in Pennsylvania; Mary Kaptur in Ohio; Jared Moskowitz in Florida; and Marie Gladesenkamp Perez in Washington State.
Green, 77, a former local president of the NAACP, a householder, where he served for 20 years. Starting in Trump’s first term, unchanged progressively introduces impeach Trump’s resolutions, and threatened to do this year.
the criticism against green rep. Dan Newhouse R-Wash. A democratic effort to distance resolve census REJECTED Wednesday in a vote of 209-211.
art criticize a formal way for home to express non-admission to a member’s behavior. A sensured member does not lose any rights or privileges as a member at home.
The matter, however, may not be closed. Far-three House Freedom Caucus, running to introduce their own resolution to censure green, says its members after the vote Another resolution Seeking to remove Green from home financial service committee. The X group said Johnson took the resolution to the floor next week.
While the Democrats share in both silent and occasional vocal protests In Trump his long address in a joint Congress session this week, Green takes things further.
He rose from his seat to the front of the room Tuesday, who shook the Trump and the President of the 2024 voters that voters that voters have a decree of the federal government.
Republicans across the passage, including reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia and Nancy Mace in South Carolina, mocked and booed. The most commonly harvested in most whip whip john barrasso, r-wyo. Shout in green: “Sit!”
Johnson beat the Gavel and gave great warnings of green, but the congressman refused to sit or silence. Johnson immediately ordered sergeant-and-arm to get the green from the chamber.
He did not resist and walked outside the room while the Republicans who were first united, “Na-nah, na-nah-nah-na … Good May … Good!”
Green said Wednesday he had “privilege to go to jail” in late rep. John Lewis in Georgia, the civil rights icon that teaches him the importance of peaceful protest.
“So the speaker didn’t get angry. I wasn’t angry with the officers. I didn’t get angry with members to bring the actions or resolutions to suffer the consequences,” I said to the consequences. “But I have to add it, what I’m doing from my heart. People are suffering and I speak about Medicaid. I don’t say that you don’t have a medicaid.”
“I did it from my heart and I would suffer whatever the consequences,” he added. “But honestly, I’ll do it again.”
The Constitution I article gives home and insult the authority to determine how to “punish its members for bad behavior.” The house first criticized a representative in 1832 for insulting the House speaker. In decades sinceMembers are criticized for transgressions such as the use of non-ararlanamentary language debate, corruption and even attack on the floor at home.
Green is the 28th member of the house criticized.
The last member of the house criticized is another progressive member of the black caucus, previously-rep. Jamaal Bowman, Dn.y., on December 7, 2023. He criticized for dragging a fire alarm to a construction of the capitol office if no fire or other emergency; Bowman was dismissed last year in democratic primary and insisted that withdrawal alarm was an accident.
One month in the past, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., The first American Palestinian woman selected in Congress, is criticize For the comments he made about October 7 Hamas terror attack Israel.
The final Republican criticism is Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar In 2021 after he posted an animated video describing him killed in rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and attacks on President Joe Biden.
