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Troy Nehls (R-TX)

Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas.

H.Res. 197 · House resolution Congress

A Republican resolution with 36 Republican cosponsors · See all 37 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Ethics.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

A House resolution is the House speaking for itself: stating a position, honouring someone, or setting its own rules. Adopting it is the whole process. Once the House agrees to it, it is officially the House's word; it is not a law, so the Senate and the President have no part in it.

What this bill would do

This resolution seeks to censure Representative Al Green of Texas. It states that on March 4, 2025, during a joint session of Congress, Representative Green interrupted President Donald J. Trump's address. The text notes that this behavior violated decorum and order. It mentions that the Speaker of the House had advised members to maintain decorum. Because he willfully disrupted the session and remained defiant, he was removed by the House Sergeant at Arms. The resolution resolves that Representative Green must be censured, present himself in the well of the House, and hear a public reading of the resolution by the Speaker.

Yes

  • Scored +2

    Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?

    The resolution mandates a public pronouncement of censure in the well of the House.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.