The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York for falsely pulling a fire alarm in late September.
The House of Representatives is formally reprimanding Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., on Thursday morning over his pulling of a fire alarm earlier this year.
The House voted largely along party lines, 214 to 191, to censure Bowman, who pulled the alarm despite no immediate threat of a fire in the middle of a dramatic floor vote. Three Democrats voted with Republicans to censure him – Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., Chris Pappas, D-N.H., and Jahana Hayes, D-Conn.
Five members of the House Ethics Committee voted «present.»
Lawmakers were on Capitol Hill on Saturday, Sept. 30, for an intense day of negotiation aimed at averting a government shutdown when the clock struck midnight.
