The House rejected a move to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday over remarks related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In a 214 to 213 vote, all Democrats and four Republicans voted to table the resolution from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of South Carolina. The four GOP no’s were Reps. Mike Flood (R-NE), Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Cory Mills (R-FL), and Tom McClintock (R-CA).
This was the fifth attempt to censure Omar. Mace’s resolution condemned Omar’s reposting of several X posts, with the focus largely on one video of a man repairing a roof with a voiceover that called Kirk a “reprehensible human being” and condemned the “revisionist history about who Kirk was.”
But the resolution did not detail any
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