First on Fox: Rep. Andy Ogles, r-tenn., Has submitted a resolution to punish the Democrats that derailed the floor procedures of the house as a rep. Al Green, D-Texas, was censored on Thursday.
“We have a country to run. The failed policy of Joe Biden is why they lost the house, why they lost the Senate, why they lost the presidency. They can lick their wounds all day, but they still have to behave on the house floor,” said Ogles Fox News Digital in a short interview.
“We can disagree about issues and politics, but we are going to respect each other and I am tired of this nonsense.”
The resolution of Ogles is aimed at stripping commission assignments of the Democratic legislators who temporarily deposited the house into chaos on Thursday.
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Rep. Al Green is removed from the Chamber, while on 4 March 2025 President Donald Trump tackles a joint session of the congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty image)
He told Fox News Digital that he intends to regard the resolution as ‘privileged’, which means that house leaders will have two legislative days to take the measure.
It can already be voted next week, when Ogles plans to make the business with speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
All except 12 house democrats voted against censing green To disrupt President Donald Trump’s Speech to a joint congress session on Tuesday evening. Ten Democrats voted with Republicans to reprimand Green, while two, including the Texas legislator himself, voted ‘present’.
Before the formal censorship could be read for Green, the Democrats were bent the floor procedures of the house by gathering with the Texas Democrat and singing “We SLILL”. Johnson was forced to call the house during a break after he had failed several times to suppress the protest.
The house floor descended briefly in chaos as a small group of Republicans and Democrats continued to confront each other, with a republican, Democrats heard “embarrassing” for their behavior.
Rep. Andy Ogles submitted the resolution. (Michael M. Santiago)
The resolution of Ogles, first obtained by FOX News Digital, gives the Sergeant at-arms on the house to “give a determination” “of which members ignored the speaker’s guideline to leave the well of the house.”
“When submitting that list to the speaker,” they would “be removed from a permanent committee on which they are currently serving for the rest of the 119th congress,” said the text.
Ogles first placed his intention to submit his resolution to X.
“The speaker, he is a good man, he is a Christian man. He has a friendly heart. Grace gave them the opportunity to stop and they refuse to do this,” Ogles told Fox News Digital. “So look, if you want to behave like a petulant child on the house floor and give you a warning and a reprimand, and you choose not to stop, then actions must be taken.”
Green was removed from Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening after repeatedly disturbing the start of the president’s speech.
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He shouted, “You don’t have a mandate!” At Trump when he praised Republican victories in the house, Senate and the White House.
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Johnson had removed Green by the Sergeant at-arms.
The 77-year-old Democrat was not repentant when he had the opportunity to express himself in his defense on Wednesday.
“I heard the speaker when he said I had to stop. I didn’t do that, and I didn’t do it with intentionality. It wasn’t done from an eruption of emotion,” Green said. “I think you should be willing to suffer the consequences for some questions, conscience questions. And I have said that I will do that. I will suffer what the consequences are, because I do not believe that in the richest country in the world, people without good health care should be.”
