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Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas.

Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas.

Introduced Mar 5, 2025

Latest action (Mar 5, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ethics.

Referred to
Ethics Committee
Policy area
Congress

Summary
  • Censures Representative Al Green of Texas for disrupting a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025.
  • Requires Representative Green to appear in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure.
  • Requires the Speaker to publicly read this resolution pronouncing the censure.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
37 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Troy E. Nehls’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • HERZOG CONTRACTING CORP. $19,800
  • KBR BUILDERS $10,000
  • HERZOG $9,900
  • CLEAR PAVE $9,800
  • Employer not reported $7,302

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Troy E. Nehls → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 5, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ethics. · house
  2. Mar 5, 2025 Submitted in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HRES 189 — Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas. · Passed House Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 97%
  • HRES 193 — Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas. · Introduced Mar 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 97%
  • HRES 1085 — Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas. · Introduced Feb 25, 2026 · Cong. 119 86%
  • HRES 676 — Censuring Representative Cory Mills. · Introduced Sep 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HRES 576 — Censuring Representative Andy Ogles. · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HRES 202 — Censuring Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado for her recent disparaging and derogatory comments about Representative Al Green of Texas. · Introduced Mar 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 5, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 5, 2025

Mr. Nehls (for himself, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Fry, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Yakym, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Barr, Mr. Collins, Mr. Steube, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Cline, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Van Drew, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Rulli, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Pfluger, Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Kiley of California, Mrs. Houchin, Mr. Luttrell, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Self, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona, Mr. Onder, Mr. Arrington, and Mr. Carter of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics

RESOLUTION

Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas.

Whereas, on March 4, 2025, during the joint session of Congress convened by the invitation of the House and Senate, Representative Al Green of Texas engaged in behavior that interrupted President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, violating decorum and order expected of Members of Congress; Whereas pursuant to Rule I of the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall preserve order and decorum in the chamber; Whereas Members of Congress were advised by the Speaker of the House to maintain decorum; Whereas Representative Green willfully disrupted the joint session, remained defiant, and was subsequently removed by the House Sergeant at Arms from the chamber; and Whereas the actions of Representative Green brought disrepute to the United States Congress: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That—

(1) Representative Al Green of Texas be censured;

(2) Representative Al Green forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure; and

(3) Representative Al Green be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker. <all>

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