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By its adoption of House Resolution, 789, the House has resolved that Representative Paul Gosser of Arizona be censured.

The House of Representatives, for only the 24th time in its history, voted on Wednesday to censure one of its own.

Arizona's Paul Gosar for tweeting an animated video that depicted him killing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden.

The last time a member was censured in 2010 was New York's Charles Rangel

for orchestrating a slew of financial and tax schemes.

Rangel was a Democrat, but he was censured by a bipartisan vote of 33 to 79.

The vote against Gosar was nothing like that, 223 to 207, with just two, count them, two Republicans

voting in the affirmative.

The two, to no one's surprise, were Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzander of Illinois,

two of the few Republicans in the House

who have stood up to the Donald Trump-inspired insurrection of January 6th.

For the most part, GOP House members defended Gosar, or, at the least, condemned the House for the

action. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who will become speakers should the

GOP capture the House in next year's midterms, never condemned the video. Instead, he went to the

floor to accuse Democrats of hypocrisy and for running a House that silences the minority party.

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