House Dem pushes to censure Boebert over TV interview about Al Green
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Houlahan claims Boebert made 'racist and derogatory' comments about Green in decrying how he shook 'his pimp cane' at Trump
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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., is pushing to censure Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., over a TV interview in which the Republican congresswoman criticized Rep. Al Green, D-Texas.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., looks on during a House Oversight committee hearing on sanctuary cities' policies at the U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

During a March 7 interview with Real America’s Voice News, Boebert said "Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum."

"For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent," Boebert added.

The resolution said those words uttered by Boebert "are disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives."

It calls for Boebert to be censured, "forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure," and that Boebert "be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker."

In a statement, Houlahan said, "After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he’d have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Representative Al Green (D-TX)."

At the start of Trump's address before Congress, Green stood up when the president described his electoral victory as a "mandate" from the American people.

"You have no mandate! You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!" Green shouted, waving his cane at Trump.

The lower chamber of Congress voted to censure Green the next day, and Johnson condemned how the Democrat "chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history."

Houlahan initially voted to table the motion, but she was among the 10 Democrats who ultimately joined with Republicans to censure Green.

Establishment Democrats and progressives  over their party's disrupting behavior during Trump's address, complaining how they've failed to have a unifying message against Republicans.



Rep. Al Green escorted out of congressional chambers after heckling Trump's address (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Image)

After the vote, Houlahan told the Inquirer she pulled Johnson "to the side and had a very‚ very strong conversation with him where I explained I voted in favor but I am not OK with arbitrary and capricious applications of the same rule."

She said she complained about how there was no censure or sanction against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Johnson replied, "Well, she just wore a hat."

But Houlahan argued Greene "also yelled at the President of the United States," referring to her treatment of former President Joe Biden last year, "and I don’t believe it’s OK that she did not have same treatment."

"And I think it’s absolute hypocrisy that people after the vote were standing there yelling at Mr. Green when their own colleagues have done very, very similar things, not wearing masks when it was mandated, wearing MAGA hats when there are literally no hats allowed on the floor," Houlahan said. "We had to make a special exception for wearing hijabs. It’s insane… We need to behave like grown-ups and stop the madness."

Houlahan said it was a "really, really, really hard vote for me," but ultimately she did her duty. "And it’s frustrating because Al Green’s statement was true," Houlahan said. "It wasn’t provocative or offensive. It was the truth. But I think each one of us had to make decisions about how we were going to comport ourselves and what was appropriate, and I know each colleague on both sides made those choices, and each one of us knows there are consequences to those choices."

Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and politics reporter at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: .

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