Lawmakers torn on whether Democrat who interrupted Trump speech should lose committee position | Fox News
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House divided over consequences for controversial congressman
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Rep. Al Green was censured by the House after his outburst during President Trump's speech
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Published March 12, 2025 3:10pm EDT | Updated March 12, 2025 3:17pm EDT

     


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Fox News Digital asked lawmakers on Capitol Hill whether they think Democratic Rep. Al Green should be removed from his committee position after interrupting President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress.

**WASHINGTON —** Republican lawmakers appear open to stripping Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, of his committee positions after disrupting President  joint address to Congress, while Democratic members remain widely opposed to the idea.

"In my view, I believe that Congressman Green, by speaking for people on Medicare and Medicaid, showed a lot more respect for the American people than Elon Musk, who calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme," Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, told Fox News Digital on Capitol Hill of the GOP efforts to remove Green from his committee assignments.

Green was removed from the House chamber after interrupting Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress earlier this month. The Democrat was later censured by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, but some Republicans on the House Freedom Caucus are seeking to take it a step further by threatening a resolution that would remove Green from his committee positions, Fox News Digital .

Democratic lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital said they were opposed to further punishment against Green, saying it's "a step too far."



"I do sit during the censorship vote, and that was the first time I ever saw something like that take place, throughout the whole State of the Union, when you can't even stand to recognize a 13-year-old boy who had multiple brain surgeries, I found that very appalling."

 Reps. Don Beyer, D-Va., and Gwen Moore, D-Wis., spoke with Fox News Digital about GOP efforts to remove Al Green from his committee position. (Fox News Digital)

 says he didn't think Green would actually be stripped of his committee position.



"I think that what he did was really an embarrassment last week. So we'll see where we go," said Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., adding that he "voted to censure him," but that "I don't know where it's going to go from there."

Fox News Digital reached out to Green's office for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

_Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report._

Aubrie Spady is a Writer for Fox News Digital.

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