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Only a simple majority vote is required. Members who are censured must stand in the well of the House chamber to receive a reading of the censure resolution. [2] A reprimand was once considered synonymous with censure, but in 1976 the House defined a reprimand as a less severe punishment.
The House of Representatives voted to add Ashmun's censure as an amendment to a resolution under consideration by the House, but the resolution itself was never adopted by the House. In 1871, Senator Charles Sumner introduced an unsuccessful resolution to censure President Ulysses S. Grant for deploying ships to the Dominican Republic without ...
The House of Representatives censured Rep. Adam B. Schiff in a party-line, 213-209 vote Wednesday, and the Burbank Democrat seems delighted. The censure was a victory for Donald Trump, who had ...
The House on Wednesday effectively killed a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), voting for a Democratic-led motion to table the measure. The chamber voted 225-196-7 to table the ...
The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — the only Palestinian American in Congress — an extraordinary rebuke of her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas ...
December 7, 2023: House votes 214–191 to censure Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York for pulling a fire alarm in the Capitol in September. [34] February 6, 2024: Members of the House vote on whether to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, but the vote to do so fails by 214–216. [35]
House members voted again Thursday to punish one of their own, targeting Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in one of the U.S. Capitol office buildings in September when the ...
The House may approve "articles of impeachment" by a simple majority vote; however, a two-thirds vote is required for conviction in the Senate. [79] A convicted official is automatically removed from office and may be disqualified from holding future office under the United States. [ 80 ]