The Chamber will advance with a final vote to censor the Democratic representative to Green on Thursday morning after his interruptions during the speech of President Donald Trump to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
The Democrats failed to block the effort for a vote of 209-211-1.
On Wednesday morning, several members of the Conference of the Republican Party circulated different resolutions to censor Green, who was expelled from the Chamber of the Chamber after interrupting Trump’s comments several times.
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.”
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.
It requires a simple majority for the step. 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 would become the fifth member of Congress to be censored in this decade.
Green on Wednesday defended his actions on the floor of the house last night, saying: “I 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.
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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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.”
The speaker Mike 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.
Johnson said after Trump’s address that Green should be censored and that “absolutely” would put a resolution on the floor after his introduction. He told reporters: “It is a show that was not necessary. He has made history in a terrible way. And I hope he enjoys it.”
In “Good Morning America” on Wednesday morning, Johnson also 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.
President of the Mike Johnson Chamber listens during a press conference at the Republican National Committee after a meeting of the Chamber Republican Conference, March 4, 2025 in Washington.
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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.”
Green said that until Wednesday afternoon, he had not spoken with the democratic leadership about the incident, since he has been mourning for the loss of Texas Sylvester Turner’s Democratic representative.
-Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.
