House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech to Congress

by UB Center for Urban Studies · 03/10/2025

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday.

The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in approving the censure resolution. Green and freshman Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., voted present. As the vote proceeded, Green sat by himself along the center aisle.

After the vote, as the resolution required of him, Green stood in the well of the House chamber while Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., read the censure resolution to him.

Dozens of Democrats, including many fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus, surrounded Green in the well and sang “We Shall Overcome” in a show of solidarity as Johnson repeatedly told them to stop and to clear the well.

Republicans in the chamber yelled, “Order! Order!” And two Black Caucus members, Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, shot back: “Shame on you!”

Democrats ignored Johnson’s request, and he then recessed the House.

Kyle Stewart and Scott Wong March 6, 2025

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