Key takeaways:
- The House of Representatives voted to formally censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in a 213-209 party-line vote.
- The resolution was authored by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and was passed with all the votes in favor coming from Republicans and all the “no” votes coming from Democrats.
- The vote comes as the House is considering a second impeachment of President Trump and is the first time in history that a sitting member of Congress has been censured by the House.
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to formally censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a manager in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial. The 213-209 party-line vote came exactly one week after a similar effort to censure Schiff was rejected after 20 Republicans joined Democrats to block the resolution over objections to a provision that called for fining him $16 million.
The censure vote was the end of a two-week quest by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the author of the resolution, to have Schiff officially admonished for various statements and actions her resolution alleged were unfair to Trump. Luna had secured support from the 20 GOP dissenters after she removed language about a fine.
After the vote, Schiff was ordered to stand on the House floor to receive a verbal rebuke, read by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. A large group of House Democrats gathered near the Speaker’s dais, where Schiff was to present himself to be censured, and shouted “shame, shame!”
The censure resolution was passed with all the votes in favor coming from Republicans and all the “no” votes coming from Democrats. It is the first time in history that a sitting member of Congress has been censured by the House. The vote comes as the House is considering a second impeachment of President Trump.
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