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House Democrat introduces measure to censure Lauren Boebert over ‘pimp cane’ remarks

By 03/11/2025 | updated 1 year ago
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican, arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. ((AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson))

A House Democrat wants lawmakers to censure Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert for allegedly making “racist and derogatory” comments about a Texas Democrat who interrupted President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week.

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, a Pennsylvania Democrat, introduced a resolution Monday that would condemn the Colorado lawmaker for saying that the 77-year-old Al Green, who is Black, shook his “pimp cane” at Trump while protesting potential cuts to Medicaid near the beginning of Trump’s speech.

House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered the sergeant-at-arms to remove Green from the chamber. Days later, House members voted to censure Green for “a breach of proper conduct,” with every Republican and 10 Democrats — including Houlahan — voting in favor of the formal reprimand.

Houlahan said Monday in a social media post that the resolution targeting Boebert was inspired by a “heated conversation” she had with Johnson after the censure vote.

“I called Speaker Johnson out on his and his party’s hypocrisy and reminded him of the many instances in which Republicans have blatantly broken the rules of conduct without consequence. He told me if he punished each instance, he’d have to censure half the House. I suggested he do just that,” Houlahan said.

“Rules are rules.” she added above a posted photo of Boebert and Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene standing and shouting at President Joe Biden during the Democrat’s 2022 State of the Union address.

Boebert criticized Green’s behavior during the Trump address Friday in an interview on Real America’s Voice.

“Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum. And he did not,” Boebert said. “For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent.”

Houlahan’s resolution said Boebert’s remarks were “disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Boebert posted a mocking response to Houlahan’s resolution Monday night on X, asking, “A. Who is Houlahan?” and “B. Can I wear a purple mink coat in the well?”

On Tuesday afternoon, Boebert sent a fundraising appeal to supporters via text message referring to Houlahan’s censure measure.

“Democrats’ plot to silence me with censure over Al Green-claiming ‘racist’ remarks, but it’s to oust me! Fight for OUR values,” the Boebert campaign’s message said.

Boebert interrupted Biden’s 2022 speech in House chambers multiple times. After arriving draped in a black shawl that read, “Drill Baby Drill” on the back, Boebert and Greene chanted “Build the Wall!” during a passage on immigration. Later, Boebert heckled Biden while the president was talking about his military veteran son’s death from brain cancer, purportedly caused by exposure to toxic smoke from burn pits in Iraq.

In late 2021, a group of Democratic lawmakers proposed censuring Boebert for the Republican’s comments describing Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as a terrorist. Boebert later apologized for her comments.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican, arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. ((AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson))
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican, arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. ((AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson))
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