The U.S. House of Representatives has officially censured Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) for pulling a fire alarm on Capitol Hill to delay a vote he disagreed with.
The decision follows Washington, D.C. Assistant Attorney General Peter Saba charging Bowman following a brief investigation by U.S. Capitol Police into allegations the 47-year-old congressman pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building.
The false alarm came as the House voted on legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Video evidence in Bowman's case shows that the Democratic lawmaker passed at least seven Capitol Police officers without informing them that he had pulled the alarm. This happened even as the House office building was clearly being evacuated.
In October, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that she introduced a resolution to censure Bowman and strip him of his committee assignments for the remainder of the 118th Congress.
Following the incident, Bowman's office issued a statement “that said Republicans should be more worried about ‘Nazis' in their midst than drawing attention to the fire alarm incident.”
After considerable backlash, Bowman disavowed the memo and stated that it was sent out without his consent.
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