By Lauren Peller, John Parkinson, Alexandra Hutzler, and Jay O’Brien\ABC News
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
The House voted on Thursday to censure Democrat Al Green over his outburst at President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
The Republican-led effort passed 224-198 with two members voting present, one of them being Green. Ten Democrats voted to censure Green.
The Texas Democrat was immediately called to the well for a public reading of the resolution by Speaker Mike Johnson. Green and other Democrats surrounding him there began singing the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome,” which prompted the Republican side to yell “order.”
A screaming match between House Democrats and Republicans broke out. At one point, Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley yelled back, “Shame on you!” Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib also shouted at Republicans.
In a brief appearance on Fox News after the vote, Johnson called it “a really sad day for our institution.”
Rep. Andy Ogles, a hardline member of the House Freedom Caucus, posted on X he’s already drafting a resolution to remove each of the Democrats who demonstrated alongside Green from their committees.
Green spoke on the House floor hours after being censured. He read the resolution aloud and offered his own commentary.
“Mr. Speaker and still I rise,” Green said, “and still I rise a proud, liberated Democrat, unbought, unbossed and unafraid.”
Green continued to criticize Trump’s agenda and animatedly explained why he and other Democrats sang in the well, calling it an “act of incivility.”
“We have to not allow [Trump’s] incivility, his requirement of fealty, to prevent us from taking the necessary actions to protect liberty and justice for all, to protect government of the people, by the people, for the people … We have to do what is necessary. I believe we have to engage in a level of positive, righteous incivility.”READ MORE…
