House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) threatened to “expose” Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) after the Republican member filed a resolution on Thursday that would punish the group of Democrats who disrupted Thursday’s censure vote of Texas U.S. Representative Al Green (D-TX-09).
Ogles filed H.Res.201 on Thursday just hours after the U.S. House voted 224-198 to censure Green after he disrupted President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress on Tuesday.
🚨Today, a group of House Democrats broke decorum during the censure of Rep. Al Green and, after multiple warnings, refused to heed @SpeakerJohnson‘s order.
I am drafting privileged resolutions to remove each of them from their committees. If you want to act like a child in the…
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) March 6, 2025
After the vote to censure Green, a group of Democrat members surrounded the Texas Democrat and sang a song supporting him on the House floor, despite House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA-04) multiple calls for the House to come to order.
Ogles’ resolution would require the Sergeant at Arms of the House to provide a determination as to which members ignored the Speaker’s call to order on Thursday and, upon submission of that list to the speaker, “be removed from any standing committee on which they currently serve for the remainder of the 119th Congress.”
“If you want to act like a child in the Halls of Congress, you will be treated like a child,” Ogles said upon introducing the resolution.
“There must be accountability. The American people deserve better than petty, juvenile stunts in one of the most sacred chambers of government,” Ogles added.
Rep. Andy Ogles is a complete and total fraud.
Your resolution is going nowhere. pic.twitter.com/k50QfO6m3g
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) March 7, 2025
Ogles’ resolution triggered a response from the Democratic leader, who posted a video statement calling the Tennessee congressman a “fraud” and threatening to “expose” him.
“My team informs me that some far-right extremists have introduced a resolution to try to throw Democratic Members of the House off of our committees. That resolution is going nowhere,” Jeffries said.
“You ain’t throwing no one off of any single committee. These people are malignant clowns. Andy Ogles is a fraud. A complete and total fraud. You aren’t throwing anyone off of any committee in the House of Representatives. Don’t make me expose you to folks who don’t know you,” Jeffries added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
