The Chamber voted Thursday to censor the Democrat to Green for his outbreak in the speech of President Donald Trump to Congress on Tuesday night.
The effort led by the Republicans approved 224-198 with two members voting present, one of them is green. Ten Democrats voted on the resolution to censor Green.
The Texas Democrat was immediately called to the well for a public reading of the resolution of the speaker Mike Johnson. Green and other Democrats around him there began to sing the anthem of civil rights “We we overcom”, which led to the Republican side to shout “order.”
A shouting party between the Democrats of the House of Representatives and the Republicans exploded. At one point, Democratic representative Ayanna Pressley shouted: “What a shame!” Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib also shouted the Republicans.
In a brief appearance in Fox News after the vote, Johnson described him as “a really sad day for the institution.”
The representative to Green holds his cane against President Mike Johnson after a vote to censor him in the House of Representatives in Washington, on March 6, 2025.
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Moments before the vote, Johnson had told ABC News that he had no pleasure in making history like this “and expected Green to” recognize his mistake. “
“I want us to have an adequate decorum. I want us to really maintain the great tradition of this institution,” said Johnson. “And these things are damaged and regret that has happened.”
Green was expelled from the joint session on Tuesday after interrupting the president’s speech and refusing to sit down despite Johnson’s warnings.
“He chose to deliberately violate the rules of the house of the house in a way that we believe that it probably does not be preceded in history, interrupting a message from a president of the United States, who is an honored guest,” Johnson explained before the vote.
Several members of the Republican Conference circulated different resolutions to censor Green after Trump’s speech. Republican representative Dan Newhouse was the first to formally introduce a resolution on the floor of the camera on Wednesday.
“The decorum and order are the institutional motifs of the way we do business in the United States Congress, and the great contempt for that standard during the speech of President Trump by Texas Knight is unacceptable,” said Newhouse in a statement. “The refusal of a member to adhere to the direction of the speaker to cease that behavior, regardless of his party, has continued to be rebuked in the house of the town.”
The Democrats tried and failed on Wednesday night block the censorship measure.
President Mike Johnson announces the result of the vote to censor the representative to the Green in the House of the House of Representatives in Washington, on March 6, 2025.
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A censorship resolution is a formal reprimand of the Chamber for violations of the Chamber Code of Conduct. A vote to censor a chamber member has no power beyond a public conviction of the behavior of the member and does not deny the privileges of the members.
Censoring the members of the house has been historically rare, but in recent years we have seen members of both political parties use this as a political tool. Green is the fifth member of Congress to be censored in this decade.
Green on Wednesday defended his actions, saying: “He would do it again.”
“I am not angry with the speaker. I am not angry with the officers. I am not upset with the members who are going to bring the motions or resolutions to the sanction. I will suffer the consequences,” he said.
Green’s outburst occurred a few minutes after Trump’s speech, when the president described his electoral victory as a “mandate.” Green, a 11 -period Democrat who represented the Houston area, got up and pointed his cane while shouting: “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.”
Johnson hit his deck and gave a warning to the legislators gathered to maintain the decorum, telling Green several times to take his seat. While Green continued to protest, Johnson asked to be eliminated.
Green is not the only legislator who interrupts a presidential speech to Congress. In 2022, republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Bobert repeatedly interrupted the speech of then President Joe Biden. Greene did it again during the state of the state of the biden 2024 union.
The representative Al Green is eliminated from the Chamber when President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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In “Good Morning America” the next day, Johnson defended his decision that Green has eliminated.
“Al Green was trying to interrupt the entire procedure. But look, I will only say this. If the Democrats want a 77 -year -old congressman to be the face of his resistance, devils to the president and then bring it,” he said.
Green told ABC News on Tuesday night she was “following the desires of conscience.”
“There are times when it is better to be alone than not being at all,” Green said. He added: “At some point, we will all have to get up.”
Ten Democrats voted to censor Green: Reps. Ami Bera de California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa de California, Laura Gillen of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlahan de Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Jared Moskowitz de Florid Nework
