Washington – The Room under Republican control voted Thursday to censor the representative Al Green, D -Texas, for having disrupted Tuesday the speech of President Donald Trump at the Congress.
The vote was 224-198, 10 democrats joining all the Republicans to approve the resolution of censorship. The representative of Green and Freshman Shomari, D-Ala., Voted present. As the vote took place, Green was seated alone along the central aisle.
After the vote, like the resolution required of him, Green was held in the well of the Chamber of the Chamber while President Mike Johnson, R-La., Read him the resolution of censorship.
Dozens of democrats, including many colleagues from Congressional Black Caucus, surrounded the green in the well and sang “we will overcome” in a demonstration of solidarity when the speaker told them repeatedly to stop and clean the well.
The Republicans of the Chamber shouted: “Order! Order!” And two members of the CBC, the representative Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., And the representative Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, took up: “Shame on you!”
The Democrats ignored the speaker’s demand, and Johnson then led to the House.
Green, 77, a former local president of NAACP, is a must -have in the house, where he served for 20 years. Based on Trump’s first mandate, the Progressist Franc-Parller has repeatedly introduced resolutions to dismiss Trump and threatened to do so again this year.
Censorship against Green was introduced by representative Dan Newhouse R-Wash. A democratic effort to deposit the resolution of censorship was rejected Wednesday during a 209-211 vote.
Censorship is an official way for the room to express the disapproval of the driving of a member. A censored member does not lose any right or privilege as a member of the Chamber.
The 10 Democrats who voted to censor Green are all moderate: the representatives of friend Bera and Jim Costa, both from California; Ed case of Hawaii; Laura Gillen and Tom Suozzi, both from New York; Jim Himes of Connecticut; Chrissy Houlahan from Pennsylvania; Ohio’s Marcy Kaptur; Jared Moskowitz from Florida; And Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of the state of Washington.
While the Democrats engaged in silent and sometimes vocal demonstrations against Trump during his long address to a joint session of the congress this week, Green did things further.
He got up from his headquarters before the room on Tuesday evening, rocked his cane to Trump and repeated that the president had “no mandate to cut Medicaid … no mandate” – after Trump declared in his speech that the voters of the 2024 elections had given him a mandate to reduce the federal government.
The Republicans on the other side of the aisle, including the Marjorie Taylor Greene representatives of Georgia and Nancy Mace de Caroline du Sud, laughed and have held. The whip of the majority of the Senate at temperature usually angry John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Croma à Green: “Sit!”
Johnson struck the hammer and gave several warnings to Green, but the member of the Congress refused to sit or be silent. Johnson then asked the sergeant of weapons to remove the green from the room.
He did not resist and came out of the room while the Republicans chanted in unison, “Na-Nah, Na-Na-Nah-Na … Goodbye!”
Green said on Wednesday that he had “the privilege of going to prison” with the deceased representative John Lewis of Georgia, the icon of civil rights which, according to Green, taught him the importance of a peaceful demonstration.
“So I am not angry with the speaker. I am not angry with the officers. I am not angry with the members who will bring requests or the resolution to the sanction. I will undergo the consequences,” said Green. “But I have to add this, what I did was from my heart. People suffer and I was talking about Medicaid. I didn’t just say that you didn’t have a mandate. I said you didn’t have the mandate to cut Medicaid.”
“I did it from my heart and I will suffer whatever the consequences,” he added. “But sincerely, I start again.”
The last member of the Chamber to be censored was another progressive member of the Black Caucus, then Representative. Jamaal Bowman, DN.Y., on December 7, 2023. He was censored for firing a fire alarm in a capitol when there was no fire or other emergency; Bowman was ousted last year in the Democratic primary and insisted that drawing the alarm was an accident.
