House censures Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's address to Congress
Green voted “present" when it came his time to vote.
The House on Thursday censured Rep. Al Green, D-Texas for disrupting President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress earlier this week.
The votes was 224-198 with Green among two members who voted neither yes or no, according to The Hill newspaper.
Green is the 28th member of the House to get a rebuke from Congress.
Green voted “present" when it came his time to vote.
“We take no pleasure in this,” Johnson reportedly said to journalists right before the vote. “I gave repeated warnings to Representative Green to stand down and to sit down and he refused to do it, he chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history, interrupting the message of a president of the United States, who is an honored guest.”