By Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – The Chamber voted Thursday to censor an unrepentant representative Al Green, D -Texas, for having disrupted the address of President Donald Trump at the Congress.
Chamber Mike Johnson, R-La., Had Green removed from the room at the start of Trump’s speech on Tuesday evening. Green got up and shouted to Trump after the Republican President said that the November 5 elections had delivered an in power not seen for several decades.
“You have no mandate,” said Houston’s legislator, trembling a cane and refusing an order from Johnson to “take place, sir!”
The Republicans acted quickly to reprimand Green with a resolution of censorship which officially records the deep disapproval of the chamber of the conduct of a member. Once such a resolution is approved by majority vote, the member is invited to stand in the chamber’s well while the president or the president reads the resolution.
The resolution against Green was approved during a vote mainly in a party line of 224-198.
Representative Dan Newhouse, the sponsor of the resolution, said it was a “necessary but difficult step”.
“This resolution is offered seriously, something I think we have to do to bring us to the higher driving level in this sacred room,” said Newhouse, R-Wash.
These are the latest fees of noisy behavior that occurred during more recent presidential speeches in the congress. Explosions of legislators have occurred on the second of the political aisle.
Representative Jim McGovern, D-MASS., Noted that the Republicans were silent when the members of their conference interrupted the speech of Democratic President Joe Biden last year.
Some have shouted “saying his name” in reference to nursing students Laken Riley, while Biden spoke of immigration legislation on which certain legislators worked. Riley was killed while he presented himself on the campus of the University of Georgia by a Venezuelan citizen who entered illegally in the United States in 2022 and had been authorized to remain to continue his immigration case.
“Person apologized for interrupting Joe Biden repeatedly,” said McGovern. “You are talking about the lack of decorum. Go back and look at the bands, and there was silence on the other side. »»
The resolution of censorship indicates that Green’s actions were an “violation of the appropriate conduct” during a joint address and that its withdrawal “after numerous disturbances”. Democrats tried to deposit it on Wednesday, but this effort failed during an online party vote.
Johnson tweeted before Thursday’s vote that Green “disgraced the convention’s institution and the voters he serves”.
“He deliberately violated the rules of the chamber, and a quick voting censorship is an appropriate remedy,” said Johnson. “Any democrat who cares about regaining confidence and respect for the American people should join the Republicans of the Chamber in this effort.”
Green, now serving his 11th term, did not offer any regrets on Wednesday when he explained his actions. Before speaking in his own defense from the house of the house, he approached on the republican side of the room and shakes the hand of Newhouse. Green said he hadn’t blamed Johnson or those who had escorted him after his explosion.
“Friends, I would start again,” said Green.
He explained his actions by saying that Trump had indicated that he had won a mandate from the voters. But Green said Trump does not have the mandate to cut Medicaid, a program on which many of his voters count.
“This is a question of principle. It is a question of conscience, ”said Green. “There are people who suffer in this country because they have no health care.”
He concluded his remarks saying: “On certain questions which are questions of conscience, it is better to be alone than not to stand at all.”
Trump said last week about the state federal health care program: “We are not going to touch it.”
Some Democratic legislators have jumped Trump’s address. Others came out during. With clearly increasing tensions, the Democratic leader of the Hakeem Jeffries chamber of New York had declared in advance of colleagues that “it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified democratic presence in the room”.
“I think Al Green was telling the truth,” said representative Mark Takano, D-Calif. He was one of the dozens of democrats who held signs who said “false” and displayed other protest slogans throughout Trump’s speech.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Who was a speaker during Trump’s first term, recalled her own memorable moment at a Trump address when she tore her speech after he was given to her following her address.
“Everyone must make their expression of the way they see things. I think we should focus on the president’s speech, “said Pelosi.
The writers of the Associated Press Matt Brown, Lisa Mascaro and Leah Askarinam contributed to this report.
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