{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2025-03-05-pt1-PgH998", "2025-03-05", 119, 1, null, null, "RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H998", "H1004", "[{\"name\": \"Dan Newhouse\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Katherine M. Clark\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Nicholas J. Begich III\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Tom Cole\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"James P. McGovern\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Doug LaMalfa\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Al Green\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Michael Baumgartner\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Suzan K. DelBene\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Tom McClintock\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Jamie Raskin\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Jonathan L. Jackson\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Rosa L. DeLauro\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Lloyd Doggett\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Mark Takano\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HCONRES\", \"number\": \"11\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HRES\", \"number\": \"189\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HRES\", \"number\": \"189\"}]", "171 Cong. Rec. H998", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 42 (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)]\n[House]\n[Pages H998-H1004]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n           RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE\n\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of\nthe House and offer the resolution that was previously noticed.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Murphy). The Clerk will report the\nresolution.\n  The Clerk read as follows:\n\n                              H. Res. 189\n\n       Whereas on March 4, 2025, during the joint session of\n     Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 11,\n     the President of the United States, speaking at the\n     invitation of the House and Senate, had his remarks\n     interrupted by the Representative from Texas, Mr. Green;\n       Whereas the conduct of the Representative from Texas\n     disrupted the proceedings of the joint address and was a\n     breach of proper conduct; and\n       Whereas after numerous disruptions, the Representative from\n     Texas had to be removed from the chamber by the Sergeant at\n     Arms: Now, therefore, be it\n       Resolved, That--\n       (1) Representative Al Green be censured;\n       (2) Representative Al Green forthwith present himself in\n     the well of the House of Representatives for the\n     pronouncement of censure; and\n       (3) Representative Al Green be censured with the public\n     reading of this resolution by the Speaker.\n\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.\n\n                            Motion to Table\n\n  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The clerk will report the motion.\n  The Clerk read the motion as follows:\n\n       Ms. Clark of Massachusetts moves to lay the resolution on\n     the table.\n\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.\n  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe noes appeared to have it.\n  Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas\nand nays.\n  The yeas and nays were ordered.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.\n  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 209,\nnays 211, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 11, as follows:\n\n                             [Roll No. 60]\n\n                               YEAS--209\n\n     Adams\n     Aguilar\n     Amo\n     Ansari\n     Auchincloss\n     Balint\n     Barragan\n     Beatty\n     Bell\n     Bera\n     Beyer\n     Bishop\n     Bonamici\n     Boyle (PA)\n     Brown\n     Brownley\n     Budzinski\n     Bynum\n     Carbajal\n     Carson\n     Carter (LA)\n     Casar\n     Case\n     Casten\n     Castor (FL)\n     Castro (TX)\n     Cherfilus-McCormick\n     Chu\n     Cisneros\n     Clark (MA)\n     Clarke (NY)\n     Cleaver\n     Clyburn\n     Cohen\n     Conaway\n     Connolly\n     Correa\n     Costa\n     Courtney\n     Craig\n     Crockett\n     Crow\n     Cuellar\n     Davids (KS)\n     Davis (IL)\n     Davis (NC)\n     Dean (PA)\n     DeGette\n     DeLauro\n     DelBene\n     Deluzio\n     DeSaulnier\n     Dexter\n     Dingell\n     Doggett\n     Elfreth\n     Escobar\n     Espaillat\n     Evans (PA)\n     Fields\n     Figures\n     Fletcher\n     Foster\n     Foushee\n     Frankel, Lois\n     Friedman\n     Frost\n     Garamendi\n     Garcia (CA)\n     Garcia (IL)\n     Garcia (TX)\n     Gillen\n     Golden (ME)\n     Goldman (NY)\n     Gomez\n     Gonzalez, V.\n     Goodlander\n     Gottheimer\n     Gray\n     Harder (CA)\n     Hayes\n     Himes\n     Horsford\n     Houlahan\n     Hoyer\n     Hoyle (OR)\n\n[[Page H999]]\n\n     Huffman\n     Ivey\n     Jackson (IL)\n     Jacobs\n     Jayapal\n     Jeffries\n     Johnson (GA)\n     Johnson (TX)\n     Kamlager-Dove\n     Kaptur\n     Keating\n     Kelly (IL)\n     Kennedy (NY)\n     Khanna\n     Krishnamoorthi\n     Landsman\n     Larsen (WA)\n     Larson (CT)\n     Latimer\n     Lee (NV)\n     Lee (PA)\n     Leger Fernandez\n     Levin\n     Liccardo\n     Lieu\n     Lofgren\n     Lynch\n     Magaziner\n     Mannion\n     Matsui\n     McBath\n     McBride\n     McClain Delaney\n     McClellan\n     McCollum\n     McDonald Rivet\n     McGarvey\n     McGovern\n     McIver\n     Meeks\n     Menendez\n     Meng\n     Mfume\n     Min\n     Moore (WI)\n     Morelle\n     Morrison\n     Moskowitz\n     Moulton\n     Mrvan\n     Nadler\n     Neal\n     Neguse\n     Norcross\n     Ocasio-Cortez\n     Olszewski\n     Omar\n     Pallone\n     Panetta\n     Pappas\n     Pelosi\n     Perez\n     Peters\n     Pingree\n     Pocan\n     Pou\n     Pressley\n     Quigley\n     Ramirez\n     Randall\n     Raskin\n     Riley (NY)\n     Rivas\n     Ross\n     Ruiz\n     Ryan\n     Salinas\n     Sanchez\n     Scanlon\n     Schakowsky\n     Schneider\n     Scholten\n     Schrier\n     Scott (VA)\n     Scott, David\n     Sewell\n     Sherman\n     Simon\n     Smith (WA)\n     Sorensen\n     Soto\n     Stansbury\n     Stanton\n     Stevens\n     Strickland\n     Subramanyam\n     Suozzi\n     Swalwell\n     Sykes\n     Takano\n     Thanedar\n     Thompson (CA)\n     Thompson (MS)\n     Titus\n     Tlaib\n     Tokuda\n     Tonko\n     Torres (CA)\n     Torres (NY)\n     Trahan\n     Tran\n     Underwood\n     Vargas\n     Vasquez\n     Veasey\n     Velazquez\n     Vindman\n     Wasserman Schultz\n     Waters\n     Watson Coleman\n     Whitesides\n     Williams (GA)\n     Wilson (FL)\n\n                               NAYS--211\n\n     Aderholt\n     Alford\n     Allen\n     Amodei (NV)\n     Arrington\n     Babin\n     Bacon\n     Baird\n     Balderson\n     Barr\n     Barrett\n     Baumgartner\n     Bean (FL)\n     Bentz\n     Bergman\n     Bice\n     Biggs (AZ)\n     Biggs (SC)\n     Bilirakis\n     Boebert\n     Bost\n     Brecheen\n     Bresnahan\n     Burchett\n     Burlison\n     Calvert\n     Cammack\n     Carey\n     Carter (GA)\n     Carter (TX)\n     Ciscomani\n     Cline\n     Cloud\n     Clyde\n     Collins\n     Comer\n     Crane\n     Crank\n     Crawford\n     Crenshaw\n     Davidson\n     De La Cruz\n     DesJarlais\n     Donalds\n     Downing\n     Dunn (FL)\n     Edwards\n     Ellzey\n     Emmer\n     Estes\n     Evans (CO)\n     Ezell\n     Fallon\n     Fedorchak\n     Feenstra\n     Finstad\n     Fischbach\n     Fitzgerald\n     Fitzpatrick\n     Fleischmann\n     Flood\n     Fong\n     Foxx\n     Franklin, Scott\n     Fry\n     Fulcher\n     Garbarino\n     Gill (TX)\n     Gimenez\n     Goldman (TX)\n     Gooden\n     Gosar\n     Graves\n     Green (TN)\n     Greene (GA)\n     Griffith\n     Grothman\n     Guest\n     Guthrie\n     Hageman\n     Hamadeh (AZ)\n     Haridopolos\n     Harrigan\n     Harris (MD)\n     Harris (NC)\n     Harshbarger\n     Hern (OK)\n     Higgins (LA)\n     Hill (AR)\n     Hinson\n     Houchin\n     Hudson\n     Huizenga\n     Hunt\n     Hurd (CO)\n     Issa\n     Jack\n     Jackson (TX)\n     James\n     Johnson (LA)\n     Johnson (SD)\n     Jordan\n     Joyce (OH)\n     Joyce (PA)\n     Kean\n     Kelly (MS)\n     Kelly (PA)\n     Kennedy (UT)\n     Kiggans (VA)\n     Kiley (CA)\n     Kim\n     Knott\n     Kustoff\n     LaHood\n     LaLota\n     LaMalfa\n     Langworthy\n     Latta\n     Lawler\n     Lee (FL)\n     Letlow\n     Loudermilk\n     Lucas\n     Luna\n     Luttrell\n     Mace\n     Mackenzie\n     Malliotakis\n     Maloy\n     Mann\n     Massie\n     Mast\n     McCaul\n     McClain\n     McClintock\n     McCormick\n     McDowell\n     McGuire\n     Messmer\n     Miller (IL)\n     Miller (OH)\n     Miller (WV)\n     Miller-Meeks\n     Mills\n     Moolenaar\n     Moore (AL)\n     Moore (NC)\n     Moore (UT)\n     Moore (WV)\n     Moran\n     Murphy\n     Nehls\n     Newhouse\n     Norman\n     Nunn (IA)\n     Obernolte\n     Ogles\n     Onder\n     Owens\n     Palmer\n     Perry\n     Pfluger\n     Reschenthaler\n     Rogers (AL)\n     Rogers (KY)\n     Rouzer\n     Roy\n     Rulli\n     Rutherford\n     Salazar\n     Scalise\n     Schmidt\n     Schweikert\n     Scott, Austin\n     Self\n     Sessions\n     Shreve\n     Simpson\n     Smith (MO)\n     Smith (NE)\n     Smith (NJ)\n     Smucker\n     Spartz\n     Stauber\n     Stefanik\n     Steil\n     Steube\n     Strong\n     Stutzman\n     Taylor\n     Tenney\n     Thompson (PA)\n     Tiffany\n     Timmons\n     Turner (OH)\n     Valadao\n     Van Drew\n     Van Duyne\n     Van Orden\n     Wagner\n     Walberg\n     Weber (TX)\n     Webster (FL)\n     Westerman\n     Wied\n     Williams (TX)\n     Wilson (SC)\n     Wittman\n     Womack\n     Yakym\n     Zinke\n\n                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1\n\n     Green, Al (TX)\n\n                             NOT VOTING--11\n\n     Begich\n     Buchanan\n     Cole\n     Diaz-Balart\n     Gonzales, Tony\n     Grijalva\n     Meuser\n     Mullin\n     Pettersen\n     Rose\n     Sherrill\n\n                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore\n\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes\nremaining.\n\n                              {time}  1652\n\n  So the motion to table was rejected.\n  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.\n  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.\n  Stated against:\n  Mr. BEGICH. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been\npresent, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 60.\n  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted NAY on\nRoll Call No. 60.\n\n                              {time}  1700\n\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DesJarlais). Pursuant to clause 2 of\nrule IX, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse) and the gentleman\nfrom Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) each will control 30 minutes.\n  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Washington.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  Mr. Speaker, I rise today for a very serious issue that I think\ntroubles and disturbs every Member of the House of Representatives on\nboth sides of the aisle.\n  Mr. Speaker, decorum, order, and respect are the foundations for the\nway that we conduct business in this Chamber, in this institution.\n  Respect for the institution is paramount. Respect for each other and\nrespect for the responsibility that each one of us has been given and\nhas been tasked with and who has the responsibility to the American\npeople are the building blocks and the most important facets of our\nsystem that truly separate us, the United States of America, from the\nrest of the world.\n  During the President's address just last night to a joint session of\nCongress, Mr. Speaker, those principles were violated. The gentleman\nfrom Texas (Mr. Green) performed one of most shameful acts that I have\never seen on this floor.\n  As an advocate for bipartisan problem-solving and for working across\nthe aisle as hard as possible to come up with solutions for the people\nwhom I represent and for the people whom every single one of us\nrepresents, I was deeply disappointed to see the behavior that we all\nsaw and that the world saw unfold in this Chamber.\n  I thank my Republican colleagues and certainly House leadership,\nparticularly Mr. Crane and Mr. Nehls, for helping elevate the\nConference's concern on this very, very important matter.\n  Mr. Speaker, we must maintain a standard in the House of\nRepresentatives, and any Member's refusal to adhere to the Speaker's\ndirection to cease such behavior, regardless of their political party\nand regardless of who is at the lectern giving a speech, has to and\nmust continue to be reprimanded. We cannot afford to let it go by.\n  Mr. Speaker, we can do better. Mr. Speaker, we must do better for\nourselves, for the institution, and for the people who sent us here.\nChecking our emotion, checking our energy, and checking our rhetoric\nand prioritizing decency between each other sends the message not only\nto our colleagues but to the rest of the country and the rest of the\nworld that we are working for the people and not against each other.\n  With those brief comments, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my\ntime.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of outrage in this Chamber about an\ninterruption last night. Republicans are furious--furious--that someone\ndared to speak up.\n  Do you know what, Mr. Speaker?\n  I agree that there was a violation of the dignity and decorum of this\nChamber, and it came from the podium where Donald Trump was standing.\nHe gave one of the most bitter, angry, and divisive speeches ever\ndelivered in this room.\n  He offered no vision and no solutions, just grievance after grievance\nafter grievance. It was 90 minutes of pure propaganda. It made me sick.\n  He offered zero ideas to fix the egg shortage, zero solutions for\ninflation, zero plans to lower rent, zero about prescription drugs, and\nzero about caring for our veterans--he didn't even mention them--and\nzero about the wildfires devastating South Carolina.\n  Mr. Speaker, do you know what Donald Trump did mention 13 times? Joe\nBiden. That is because he is obsessed with the past, and he is obsessed\nwith himself.\n  Republicans jump into action after someone has the guts to stand up\nand call BS. It has been less than 24 hours, and here they are on the\nfloor with an emergency censure to soothe Donald Trump's fragile ego. I\nhave never seen them leap into action so fast in my life. It was\novernight.\n  Meanwhile, their own voters are getting hurt by this administration,\nand it is radio silence. They can't even be\n\n[[Page H1000]]\n\nbothered to lift a finger or do a townhall.\n  Mr. Speaker, where is the outrage over Trump wanting to cut 80,000\njobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs?\n  Where is the condemnation for Trump firing 6,000 veterans with no\njustification?\n  Where is the anger for Trump firing scientists who are working to fix\nthe egg shortage by fighting the bird flu?\n  Moreover, where is the immediate action when the people who keep\nEbola out of the country are fired or the people who secure our nuclear\nweapons are fired?\n  Where is the outrage?\n  Republicans can't lift a finger about any of those things, but they\nsprint to the floor to censure Al Green because he hurt Trump's\nfeelings. It is pathetic, Mr. Speaker.\n  Now, look, we know what this is all about. Republicans don't work for\nAmerica. They don't work for the people. They don't work for veterans,\nand they don't work for the teachers or the nurses or the firefighters\nor factory workers or the waitresses or the farmers.\n  They work for Trump. They work for Trump, for their billionaire\ndonors, and for the greedy corporations who write their campaign\nchecks. Mr. Speaker, if you ever needed proof, then look no further\nthan what is happening right now.\n  They are desperate--desperate--to distract from their own failings.\nThey are desperate to distract from their betrayal of the middle class.\nThey are so desperate that they are running from their own voters and\ncensuring people who hurt Trump's feelings.\n  Give me a break.\n  Al Green is not the one trying to gut Medicaid; Trump is. Al Green is\nnot the one trying to gut veterans' benefits; Trump is. Al Green is not\nthe one cozying up to dictators and screwing over our allies; Trump is.\n  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from\nengaging in personalities toward the President.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to say that I respect\nMr. McGovern's opinion and his viewpoints. They may conflict with mine\non many occasions, but he has the absolute right to express them on\nthis floor, and we need to continue that tradition. However, this is\nnot about the President. This is not about President Trump.\n  This is about how we, as Members of the House of Representatives,\nconduct ourselves while we are doing business on the House floor. This\nis about how we treat each other. It is about how we treat each other,\nwhether with respect or not. It is so important, especially when the\neyes of the world are focused right here in this very room.\n  In my short time in Congress, which is just about a decade now, I\nhave never ever seen a Member of the House, by the direction of the\nSpeaker, escorted from the premises by the Sergeant at Arms. That is a\nfirst.\n  Maybe, Mr. Speaker, you know of the last time it happened. It has\nbeen a long time.\n  I am very disappointed and ashamed of the fact, and this is not\npersonal to Mr. Green, who is a very amiable fellow, but we must, as\nMembers of this institution, leave our rhetoric, calm our energy, and\nmake sure our emotions do not take over and conduct ourselves in a way\nthat all of us, not just here in this room but across the country, can\nbe proud of because we truly are on display to the rest of the world.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman\nfrom California (Mr. LaMalfa).\n  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Newhouse for leading this. It\nis a regrettable situation we are in. It is not one we enjoy at all.\n  I have been disappointed over the years at outbursts that come from\nthis Chamber at whoever the President is. I know people on my side of\nthe aisle have done it. In the case I am thinking of, that person later\nregretted it and apologized for it. That person understands that we\nhave to have decorum in this place.\n  It is hard to contain emotions, perhaps, but we are in the business\nto be leaders. We are in a business that we are supposed to be able to\ncontain our emotions and contain ourselves in such a way that we are\ngood leaders and good examples for the American people; that they can\nbe proud of us and what we are doing. They may disagree with us on our\npolicies, and they may disagree strenuously.\n  I consider Mr. Green a friend, at least an acquaintance. We don't\nhang out a lot or are on the same committees, but we chat together in\nthe hallways. I like him, and I hope he likes me too. We have probably\nextremely different views on some issues, and I know he expresses\nhimself in some pretty strong views and emotions, as well. That is fine\nwhen we are doing that in debate and we are doing that in the proper\nformat here.\n  However, decorum in this hallowed Chamber and for what this has stood\nfor for well over 200 years requires us to be able to operate much\nbetter than that.\n  I wasn't so much mad last night as I sat just a few chairs over from\nMr. Green. I was really mostly disappointed that it had to come to\nthat.\n\n                              {time}  1715\n\n  I have had Presidents who I have strongly disagreed with over their\nrhetoric or their policies, and I think they have been, in my view,\nvery harmful to the country.\n  Members don't act that way and completely disrupt the operations of\nthis Chamber and the joint session last night for their own theater.\nThat is what I am afraid it was.\n  Did the gentleman feel strongly? Certainly he did, but Members of\nCongress don't act that way. We don't wave a walking stick around at\npeople like that. It is just not good. It is improper. It is not the\nway we are supposed to conduct ourselves in this place or at any public\nforum, city council level, what have you, including townhalls.\n  Mr. Speaker, I enjoy having townhalls, by and large, but if they are\ngoing to be advertised as a forum as a free-for-all for people to come\nout and do screaming matches, what should we do? Should we just turn on\nthe clock for 90 minutes and have at it?\n  I would like that the interactions at our local level could be\nconstructive and both sides can hear each other to understand what is\ngoing on.\n  In this Chamber here, during that hallowed event, when the whole\ncountry and the whole world was watching, for someone to be able to\nsingle out their own interests or their own theater because they\ndisagreed strongly with a President whom they don't like, it is really,\nreally bad decorum and a really bad way of doing business.\n  I tell the gentleman that I don't enjoy casting this vote at all if\nit should come up tomorrow. I personally like my colleague on the other\nside of the aisle. I wish we could have done better last night.\n  I hope we can count each other as friends after this. I don't hold\nany long-term anger or angst, but it just wasn't good. I wish I could\nhave taken the gentleman aside last night and said: Let's not do this.\n  Unfortunately, it happened. This is a proper reaction. We can't just\nlet this stand. It has to be done correctly. We have to have a decorum\nfor this House, and this censure is what is necessary to hit that reset\nand do so.\n  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding time to me.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for the gentleman who\njust spoke, but where was he and where were the Republicans when Joe\nBiden was President of the United States?\n  I remember sitting here, and there was an entire heckling section on\nthe Republican side. We didn't call for all of those Members to be\nremoved. We wanted to go on with the people's business, but where was\nthe gentleman? Where were my Republican friends?\n  Nobody apologized for interrupting Joe Biden time and time again. The\nmajority talks about lack of decorum. Go back and look at the tapes.\n  There was silence on the Republican side. I appreciate the\ngentleman's selective outrage, but he would have more credibility had\nhe expressed outrage when his colleagues were heckling Joe Biden.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr.\nGreen).\n  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise.\n  Mr. Speaker, I rise to explain why I did what I did, and I did it\nwith intentionality. The President indicated that he had a mandate.\n\n[[Page H1001]]\n\n  I said to the President: ``You do not have a mandate to cut\nMedicaid.''\n  I have constituents who need Medicaid. They will suffer, and some\nwill die if they don't get Medicaid.\n  I heard the Speaker when he said that I should cease. I did not, and\nI did not with intentionality. It was not done out of a burst of\nemotion. I was emotional about it, but I did it with intentionality.\n  I think that, on some questions, questions of conscience, one has to\nbe willing to suffer the consequences. I have said that I will. I will\nsuffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe that\npeople should be without good healthcare.\n  Mr. Speaker, I stood up for my constituents then. I am standing up\nfor my constituents now. I am grateful to the gentleman from\nMassachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for what he has said. I am grateful to\nthose who have been standing with me.\n  I will tell my colleague on the other side of the aisle: I appreciate\nhim. I have no anger. The officers who escorted me out were kind to me.\nI don't blame the Speaker for anything.\n  Mr. Speaker, I would do it again. I have to be candid with the\ngentleman. I am not trying to insult him in some way. This is a matter\nof principle. This is a matter of conscience. There are people\nsuffering in this country because they don't have healthcare.\n  I will close with this: On some issues that are matters of\nconscience, it is better to stand alone than to not stand at all. This\nis where I stand.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the\ngentleman from Washington (Mr. Baumgartner).\n  Mr. BAUMGARTNER. Mr. Speaker, I will start by thanking my colleague\nfrom Washington (Mr. Newhouse) for yielding me time.\n  Mr. Speaker, Donald Trump is not the Republican President. He is the\nAmerican President. What happened last night was beneath the dignity of\nthe House and beneath the dignity of the American people. I say that as\nsomeone who is new to this body.\n  I also point out how it was perceived and how it may have been\ninterpreted.\n  As Members know, each Member of the House receives a guest ticket. I\ndecided to give my guest ticket, the first one that I was able to give\nfor this kind of occasion, to a teacher from eastern Washington. I gave\nit to her with the goal of inspiring an interest in civics and public\nservice in the next generation of young people.\n  In fact, we ran a competition for students to nominate their teacher,\nand the winning teacher that came had never before been to Washington,\nD.C., had never been to the Halls of Congress, and was so excited that\nshe was here to watch the joint session.\n\n  I have no idea what her political beliefs were, no idea whether she\nis Republican or Democrat or Independent. She was just excited to be\nhere as part of this experiment in democracy that we have. All of her\nstudents were watching from home.\n  While it can be regrettable, and it happens on both sides, when\npeople have a spontaneous outburst of emotion and maybe say something\nthey shouldn't, what I saw and what I worry about what her students saw\nlast night was a continued premeditated attack, and some might even say\nthe appearance of a violent and threatening action with the cane.\n  That may not have been the intent, but I worry that those students\nperceived what I saw as I watched was a scene that was beneath the\ndignity of this House, beneath the dignity of the American people, and\ncertainly beneath the dignity of our President.\n  At some point, America cannot continue on this slide towards\ncontinual partisan fighting and all of the divisiveness. We all need to\ndo better, including myself and I think every Member of this body.\n  Let's join together on this. Let's join together and realize that\nthis episode was beneath the dignity of what the American people expect\nfrom Congress. Let's have this be a new beginning in civility from a\nlow point that this body can rise and behave in the manner, I think,\nthat all of the American people want it to behave, and certainly those\nhigh school students that were watching from home, who were so excited\nthat their teacher was here to experience this special moment.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the gentleman who\njust spoke, if he felt that the most offensive thing last night was Mr.\nGreen coming to this floor, standing up in this Chamber, and pleading\nwith the President not to cut people's healthcare, if he thinks that\nwas the most offensive thing that occurred on the House floor last\nnight, then I don't think he was paying attention to the speech that\nwas being given by the President of the United States. Go back and\nreread it.\n  Go back and reread it. It was a totally divisive and partisan speech.\nThe President was calling Senators names, berating Joe Biden. It was a\ncampaign speech.\n  The gentleman from Washington (Mr. Baumgartner) says that the\nPresident is supposed to be the President of the entire United States,\nnot just Republicans.\n  Mr. Speaker, I wish we had seen that last night, but we didn't. In\nall of my years, I have never ever witnessed anything as partisan and\nas divisive as that.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington\n(Ms. DelBene).\n  Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, one thing we should be talking about are\nthe important investments that we make in medical research.\n  The United States leads the world in medical research and innovation.\nWithout our investments, more people would be dying from cancer, heart\ndisease, and diabetes.\n  Mr. Speaker, medical breakthroughs of tomorrow are at risk because of\nTrump's research cuts at the National Institutes of Health. These cuts\nwill be especially felt in my home State of Washington, where we are\nleaders in advancing world-class scientific research that saves lives.\n  Washington is home to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where I\nrecently visited to highlight the devastating impacts of these cuts on\nthe 40,000 patients that they serve each year.\n  In fiscal year 2024, Washington researchers were awarded nearly $1.3\nbillion in NIH funding that supports 12,000 jobs in our State. One of\nmy constituents works at an organization that is fighting autoimmune\ndiseases. It is 80 percent funded by NIH investments. She is worried\nabout the devastating impacts that these cuts would have on the\npatients who rely on their work.\n  I started my career in medical research, and I know what losing\nfunding or even the threat of it being cut off could have on\ninstitutions and their patients.\n  The consequences of the President's decision will be felt in so many\nways. Labs could go dark. Patients could be kicked off of lifesaving\ncritical trials. New cures could be delayed. Future innovators could\nabandon the field.\n  The President must stop the senseless attack on the research that\nsaves money but, most importantly, saves lives.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the\ngentleman from California (Mr. McClintock).\n  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Green deliberately disrupted\nCongress' proceedings during a joint session yesterday.\n  This was an affront to the Constitution, which commands that the\nPresident report to the Congress from time to time. It was an insult to\nthe Presidency, and it was a disgrace to this body.\n  It was perpetrated not by some lunatic wearing buffalo horns but,\nrather, by an elected Member of the United States Congress. This is\nworthy of the harshest sanctions that we can apply.\n  Mr. Speaker, many Members repeatedly interrupted this Presidential\naddress with catcalls and insults and other gestures of disrespect. A\nMember once did this to President Obama. He apologized, and he was\nreprimanded.\n  I didn't hear an apology from Mr. Green right now. What I heard was\ndeliberate, calculated defiance.\n  The whole reason for this building to exist and the whole reason for\nthis House Chamber is to exchange our views, sometimes very sharply\ndifferent views, and talk out the differences among us. In order for\nthat to work, that discussion has to be accompanied by civility and\ndecorum.\n  Accordingly, our rules insist on that. I believe that all of those\nwho breach\n\n[[Page H1002]]\n\nthese rules need to be held accountable, lest this event become just\nanother sad milestone in the denigration of this institution.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States said a lot of things\nlast night. He used a personal insult against a sitting Senator from my\nhome State, and the gentleman who just spoke is upset that someone\nstood up and asked him not to cut Medicaid?\n\n                              {time}  1730\n\n  Really? That is what this is all about?\n  You heard from Mr. Green. There is not a gentler soul in this\nChamber, and he was offended by some of the things the President was\nsaying yesterday. I am all for decorum, but where is the decorum in\nthrowing poor people off of healthcare? Where is the decorum in cutting\nfood benefits and nutrition benefits to people who are in desperate\nneed? Where is the decorum in cutting school meals?\n  These are unusual times that we are in. They are firing veterans as\nwe are gathered here today, people who serve our country with\ndistinction. Our constituents and your constituents are upset, and here\nwe are upset because somebody got up and pleaded with the President not\nto cut Medicaid.\n  Where were all of my Republican friends when we had a heckling\nsession year after year of Republicans berating Barack Obama? There was\nnothing. There was nothing. I can't believe we are having this debate.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr.\nRaskin).\n  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, thousands of my constituents have been\nillegally fired by Elon Musk and by Donald Trump. One of them was with\nme last night, Dr. Lauren McGee, who was an NIH pediatric cancer\nspecialist heading up a team looking into osteosarcoma, bone cancer for\nchildren. She got fired on February 14 because she was a probationary\nemployee. Probationary, not because she had done anything wrong, but\nbecause she had been promoted into the new job. She was with me last\nnight, and she had to sit here and listen, along with me--and I had\nspent the day with her--to Donald Trump saying one of their top\npriorities is to fight childhood cancer, and she got sacked on that\nValentine's Day massacre.\n  Now they want to censure the gentleman from Texas. Why? Because he\nchallenged the President about his claim that he has a mandate to cut\nMedicaid, and that is what the gentleman was trying to raise.\n  We have Republicans in the Chamber who have never voted to impeach\nDonald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against this Congress,\nthis Constitution, and his own Vice President, who have never voted to\neven censure the President for doing that, and yet they want to censure\nthe gentleman from Texas.\n  Last night, President Trump called a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts\n``Pocahontas,'' using an ethnic slur to go after her. If you really\nwant to proceed to censure the gentleman from Texas for talking about\nno mandate to cut Medicaid, then certainly we are going to have to move\nto censure the President for using a racial and ethnic slur against a\nsitting United States Senator.\n  I would prefer to stand by the tradition of free speech and even the\ntradition of heckling. There is a fine American art of heckling. If you\nread the Lincoln-Douglas debates, I recommend the Harold Holzer version\nof it because the newspapers carried all of the hecklers' comments,\ntoo. People would get up and heckle, and Lincoln would interact with\nthem and Douglas would interact with them.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the\ngentleman from Maryland.\n  Mr. RASKIN. Let's stop clutching our pearls. There has been lots of\nheckling over on that side of the aisle. I saw the gentlewoman from\nGeorgia heckle the last President and have a whole heckling section\nthere. We didn't try to censure them or kick them out of Congress or\nanything. We actually not only say we believe in free speech but we\nbelieve in free speech. We will stand up for people's right to speak.\n  Now, I don't believe in the kind of heckling where you drown somebody\nout and you make it impossible for them to speak, but the gentleman was\ntrying to start a conversation as opposed to just being spoken to all\nnight.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from\nengaging in personalities toward the President.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  Mr. Speaker, this is very interesting to listen to the arguments\ncoming from the other side of the aisle about what we are doing here\ntonight.\n  In talking about free speech, it seemed to me that the gentleman from\nTexas was doing all he could to prohibit or get in the way of the\nPresident of the United States exercising his free speech and his\naddress to the joint session.\n  This is not about policy. This is not about whether Republicans are\nbetter than Democrats or vice versa. This is about how we conduct\nourselves on the House floor. This is about how we treat each other.\nThis is a reflection on every single one of us in this Chamber. As my\ncolleague from the State of Washington said, it is not just us this\naffects. This affects the kids of our country, as well, who are\nlearning, one way or the other, from our examples.\n  You can go on and on about how much you disagree and detest some of\nthe policies and positions of the President of the United States. Be my\nguest, but that is not what is being argued tonight. That is not the\nissue that we are taking a stand on today. This is how we, as a body,\nshould conduct ourselves in these hallowed Halls, this Chamber, that\nnot very many people ever get to set foot into.\n  This is something we should hold to a higher standard. We have to or\nelse what are we? Are we just a debate club that yells at each other,\nor do we stand for something? Do we truly see ourselves as\nRepresentatives of the people of the United States?\n  Something has to change. It truly does. A line has to be drawn. Not\nall of us on either side of the aisle are perfect examples of what we\ncould or should be, but certainly, as I mentioned before, in my career\nhere, I have never ever seen a Member of Congress escorted from the\nfloor of the House by the Sergeant At Arms. It has never happened in my\ncareer, and I don't want to see it happen again.\n  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  Do you know what has never happened in my career? The President of\nthe United States coming before a joint session of Congress and\ninsulting Members by name individually, shouting slurs at people.\n  I have never seen that before. Would the gentleman agree with me that\nTrump deserves a censure for calling my Senator from Massachusetts a\nslur? Would that be appropriate?\n  Again, this was not business as usual yesterday. To make believe that\nsomehow it was or that the person who was giving the speech yesterday\nwas acting within the structures of decorum is laughable.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr.\nJackson).\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from\nengaging in personalities toward the President.\n  Mr. JACKSON of Illinois. Mr. Speaker:\n  ``Cowardice asks the question, `Is it safe?' Expediency asks the\nquestion, `Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, `Is it popular?'\nBut conscience asks the question, `Is it right?' And there comes a time\nwhen one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor\npopular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that\nit is right.''\n  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the courage, the character,\nand the great decency of the Honorable Congressman Al Green for saying\nwhat is right, when there are many amongst us that have cowardice that\nhave seemed to have lost their backbone and spine to call out untruths.\n  Mr. Speaker, he is a man that is standing up for those who are poor,\nwho are left out, who have been left behind, a man that is standing up\nfor Medicaid and Medicare. As we sit here\n\n[[Page H1003]]\n\nand talk about some of this pious irrelevancy and sanctimonious\ntrivialities, this man should be heralded and stand up for his decency,\nfor his courage for standing up for the poor, for the least of these.\n  There is a theological problem in this institution when we are more\nkind to those who are rich and powerful than those who are poor, when\nwe are talking about balancing the budget off the backs of those who\nneed healthcare, who need housing, who need food assistance, to give\ntax breaks to the rich.\n  Once again, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in celebrating the\nHonorable Congressman Al Green.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 13\\1/2\\\nminutes remaining.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from\nConnecticut (Ms. DeLauro).\n  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, while Republicans try to distract us with\nthis resolution, our constituents are reaching out to us. What are they\nasking us? They are asking us to stop the Republican assault on our\nschools, our livelihoods, and our communities.\n  Another constituent who reached out to me is named Kris. He is a\nstudent at Common Ground High School. Common Ground High School is an\ninnovative, educational, environmental, and community-building venture,\ncombining a charter high school, an urban demonstration farm, and a\ncommunity environmental education center.\n  Due to the funding freeze, Kris said essential programs at Common\nGround, like the youth workforce development and community food relief,\nwhich also partners with CitySeed to help people afford food stamp\npurchases from the farm, have been shut down. They have been shut down\nbecause of this freeze, and 71 student workers have been laid off.\n  Students like Kris are reaching out not just because of their own\nfuture and their education has been affected but because they see how\ntheir community is hurt by these cuts, as well.\n  There are people today around this country, not only in my district,\nwho are getting hurt thanks to Republican cuts. The funding freeze is\nnot just killing the crops at Common Ground, but it is killing academic\nfutures, new ideas for education, and opportunities for young people in\nthis country. This is what Republicans are trying to do by distracting\nus with their censures.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nTexas (Mr. Doggett).\n  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, Al Green is my friend and, for that matter,\nso is Mr. Newhouse, though I don't know him quite as well.\n  I think this motion is a serious mistake. I sat here in this House\nthe night that President Obama made his state of the Union speech, and\n Joe Wilson from South Carolina jumped up and said: ``You lie.''\n  Nothing was done about that.\n  Mr. Green engaged in conduct that I chose not to participate in,\nthough I found that a number of my constituents wished I had joined\nhim. He expressed his strong views in a way that I would not have\nvoiced them myself, but he left this Chamber voluntarily after doing\nso. To censure him now sets us back. It does not move us forward toward\na more bipartisan and a more respectful House.\n  Indeed, I think many Americans will be surprised that Republicans get\nupset about decorum on anything. There was no Republican objection when\nPresident Trump decided to pardon the criminals that were responsible\nfor the deaths of police officers in this building when they defended\nus on January 6, sprayed them with bear spray, and harassed and harmed\nso many officers.\n  There has been no Republican concern about decorum when the President\nfired the head of the Office of Ethics at the White House, when he\nfired the watchdogs of about 17 different Federal departments and\nagencies, the inspectors general that are designed to uphold and check\nout corruption and waste in our government.\n\n                              {time}  1745\n\n  There has been no outrage when President Trump decided that he would\ntake on General Milley for being the patriot that he is and seek to\nobtain revenge on him.\n  What Mr. Green was talking about was outrage about something that is\nvery important. There are 700,000 seniors in Texas who rely on Medicaid\nand nursing homes.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the\ngentleman from Texas.\n  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, half the children in my hometown, and\nprobably more in Mr. Green's, are at risk of losing their care as seen\nin our Children's Hospital. Medicaid is a lifeline to individuals with\ndisabilities.\n  He was passionate. He was emotional. He is deeply committed to\nprotecting the vulnerable. He should not be censured for the way in\nwhich he expressed his passion and his concern and his love of justice.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n  I appreciate the comments of Mr. Doggett and do consider him a friend\nas well, but let me just tell you that we are talking apples to oranges\nwhen we are speaking about something that happened under President\nObama's speech on the Republican side.\n  Last night, Mr. Green was reprimanded at least three times by the\nSpeaker to stop and desist what he was doing, shaking his cane at the\nPresident at the rostrum in a threatening manner, underscoring--what I\nsaw was emotion, energy and emotion; and intentionality, absolutely,\nintending to disrupt the speech by the President of the United States.\n  I think we are talking about two different things here. The incident\nduring the Obama administration was over in just a few seconds. This\nwent on and on and on. Certainly, debating the issue is one thing in\ndifferent circumstances. This was not an open debate. Mr. Green was\ntrying to make it one.\n  This was a message from the President, so the actions that we are\nproposing to take here are absolutely justified. The President was here\nunder invitation by the House of Representatives for a report to\nCongress. It was not an open debate. It was a message being received by\nthe joint session, and that is the way it should be treated.\n  Respect should be given to the Presidency whether or not they are\nyour guy or your gal. It is the Office of the President that needs the\nrespect because it reflects on all of us as Members of the House of\nRepresentatives.\n  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nCalifornia (Mr. Takano).\n  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member McGovern for yielding\nto me.\n  Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution. I am here as\nthe ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to\nrepresent the interests of our Nation's veterans when they are\ncallously being targeted.\n  While our colleagues across the aisle are determined to shift the\npublic narrative away from the harm being done to veterans, we choose\nto focus on what our President failed to address last night. He spent\nan hour and 40 minutes touting his so-called accomplishments while\nveterans watching at home were waiting for answers, answers and\nexplanations they never received.\n  While President Trump was addressing us last night on this very House\nfloor, movements were being made by the Chief of Staff for Veterans\nAffairs, Christopher Syrek, to execute a detrimental reduction in force\nat VA. With the support of this administration, VA plans to move\nforward with firing an additional 83,000 VA employees.\n  Sitting in the audience of President Trump's address were 20 veterans\nwho had been indiscriminately fired from Federal agencies, veterans he\nfailed to address. Not once during his speech was he able to look them\nin the eyes and speak to the merciless effects his administration's\ndecisions have made on their community. He didn't attempt to justify\nthem because he knows there is no justification.\n  Our veterans served our Nation. They put their lives on the line for\nus and this country's values, and now look at what they are facing.\nThey are facing attacks on their benefits. They are facing attacks on\ntheir healthcare, education, and housing. When we reduce\n\n[[Page H1004]]\n\nan agency established to work for them, we fail them.\n  I stand behind Congressman Green as he stood up for the rights of all\nveterans and all Americans.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire, is the gentleman prepared\nto close?\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. I am prepared to close, Mr. Speaker.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for\nthe purpose of closing.\n  Mr. Speaker, I just want to say, the virtue signaling we are seeing\nfrom Republicans right now is insane. I am sorry. Who was it who\nyelled: ``You lie'' at President Obama during his address? A\nRepublican.\n  Who was it who heckled President Biden, standing up and ranting like\nlunatics? It was Republicans.\n  Go back and look at the videos. It was embarrassing. Nothing was done\nabout that.\n  I am the ranking member of the damn Rules Committee, and I have a\nquestion. Why are the rules only applied to Democratic Members?\n  Are Republicans ready to censure their own Members for wearing\ncampaign hats in the Chamber last night? That is a violation of the\nrules.\n  Are they ready to censure the Republican Member who got caught voting\nfrom California last month, which is a violation of the House rules? He\nwasn't even in the Chamber. Hell, he wasn't even on the East Coast.\n  Are these people going to be censured? Of course not, because their\noutrage is all BS.\n  There was a breach of dignity and decorum in this Chamber last night,\nbut it wasn't Al Green. It was the President of the United States, who\nstood at that podium and delivered a manifesto of pure fantasy.\n  He says he wants to make America affordable again. Well, inflation\njust hit a 7-month high, and his new trade war will cost families\n$2,000 more a year.\n  Trump says he wants to balance the budget. His plan would add $3\ntrillion to the deficit to give billionaires another tax cut--let me\nrepeat that again--to give billionaires a tax cut. All these cutbacks,\nall these firings are going to fund tax cuts for billionaires.\n  He says Social Security is paying benefits to millions of people over\n100 years old. That is totally wrong, debunked a hundred times.\n  He says he cares about childhood cancer. He slashed the funding for\nchild cancer research.\n  He says his tariffs are good for farmers. Last time he did this,\nfarmers lost $27 billion.\n  He says he supports law enforcement. He pardoned the people who beat\npolice officers on January 6. He pardoned them: people who tried to\noverturn the election, people who brutally beat the men and women who\nprotect us in this Chamber every single day.\n  There was just one outrageous statement after another, and not a\nsingle peep from my Republican friends. Nothing. Now, Mr. Speaker,\nRepublicans have the nerve to come down here and censure anyone.\n  Republicans moved heaven and earth to come down here and defend the\nhonor of their boss, Donald Trump, but they won't lift a finger for\ntheir own constituents. Look in the mirror and censure yourselves.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from\nengaging in personalities toward the President.\n  Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n  One of the things when I was a freshman in Congress that just shocked\nme, amazed me, is how easily events on the floor would devolve into\nwhat I would describe as something akin to a high school pep rally, and\nthat pains me to say that.\n  We are all adults here, discussing some of the most important issues\nfacing the American public, I would daresay the entire world, right\nhere in this Chamber. The things that happen in this Chamber that\nreflect poorly on us reflect poorly on every single one of us.\n  I would say to you, Mr. Speaker, that this is truly a wake-up call\nfor this Chamber. The lack of decorum has reached a new high when the\nPresident of the United States cannot even come into our Chamber,\ninvited, and complete his speech without the interaction that we saw\nlast night.\n  We have to take this action of censure. Let me tell you, there are\nmany people on my side of the aisle that would like to take this even\nfurther. The notion of intentionality versus emotion does not justify\nthe actions that we witnessed last night, the disrespect of the\ninstitution.\n  Using the argument that, well, our side did it so we can do it, too,\nwell, that doesn't work. That does not hold water.\n  Mr. Speaker, we can do better. Mr. Speaker, we must do better. We\ncannot ignore the willful disruption intended to stop a proceeding.\n  Let me use another word that is also difficult to say. It was\nshameful.\n  Without decorum, without respect, what have we got? What do we have?\nTruly.\n  You have all seen the newsreels of other countries that chambers\nsimilar to ours evolve into fistfights on the floor.\n  Is that where we are headed next? Is that what we want to have happen\nso that these fine people that work their tails off every day can be\npart of that and be the referees in a situation that is out of control?\n  Like I said, this shameful action reflects on every single one of us.\nYou are right. I will concede that all of us need a reminder that we\nall need to raise our level of accountability due to the actions that\nwe take.\n  Mr. Speaker, I think this is a necessary but difficult step. This\nresolution is offered in all seriousness. It is something that I\nbelieve that we must do in order to get us to the next level of conduct\nin this hallowed Chamber.\n  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats,\nto join with me to attain that better level of conduct. We owe it to\nour constituents for sure. We owe it to our future constituents in this\ncountry. We owe it to our country.\n  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The previous question is ordered on the\nresolution.\n  The question is on adoption of the resolution.\n  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe ayes appeared to have it.\n  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.\n  The yeas and nays were ordered.\n  The SPEAKER pro tempore. 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