Two moderate Democrats who against Censuring Rep. Al Green, D-Texas voted, suggested that they did not believe that the congress should concentrate on such matters.
Ten democratic legislators broke out of their party To vote on a resolution of the house guided by the GOP to formally admonish Green for protesting during the president Donald Trump’s Address to a joint congress session on Tuesday evening.
The majority of that 10 is considered to be a front line democrats in more moderate districts, while others, such as Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Be generally known to cross the aisle and work with Republicans.
Fox News Digital reached nine other Democrats who represented moderate areas, who were part of the 198 in total who opposed the censing of Green.
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Reps. Jared Golden, Left, and Josh Riley, on the right, told Fox News Digital why they voted against Censuring Rep. Al Green, Center. (Getty Images/AP)
Of that, only two representatives. Jared Golden, D-Maine and Josh Riley, DN.Y. – Answers offered.
“In the current environment, censorship tends to give a larger platform to the censored legislator. So I tend to lean for free speech unless a clear red line has been exceeded,” Golden told Fox News Digital.
The written statement of the Maine Democrat also included a link to a reference of his vote for censing “Squadron” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., About her anti-Israeli comments.
However, he criticized Green’s interruption of Trump’s speech.
“I voted against censuring rep. Green because I do not believe he has exceeded that line – and I do not believe it is in the interest of the house to draw even greater attention to his misguided behavior,” Golden explained.
Rep. Al Green is calling while President Donald Trump tackles a joint session of the congress, Tuesday 4 March 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool -Photo via AP)
Riley’s statement has not noticed directly on green, but generally rejected attention seekers in Washington.
“Upstate New Yorkers sent me to the congress to lower costs, create jobs and make sure they get an honest shot. I wish we had focused this morning instead of the drama and the political theater in Washington,” said the first-term democrat.
Riley won his chair in November through former Rep. Marc Molinaro, RN.Y., in a district that extends a large part of the central state of New York.
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Green was censored in a vote from 224 to 198 on Thursday morning after repeatedly disrupting the start of the Primetime speech by Trump.
He shouted, “You don’t have a mandate!” In Trump and shook his stick in the air while the president attracted the Republican victories in the house, the Senate and the White House. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., After a warning had green removed from The room.
Rep. Al Green will be removed from the room on Tuesday evening. (Win McNamee/Pool -Photo via AP)
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The 77-year-old Democrat was not repentant and posted on X on Thursday afternoon: “Today the house Gop censed me because I was pronounced for the American people against (Trump’s) plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to remain silent against injustice.”
The 10 Democrats who voted to censor Green are representatives. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, dn.y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, DN.Y.
Green himself voted ‘present’, just like the first term rep. Shomari figures, D-Ala.
