'Racist and derogatory': Resolution seeks to censure Lauren Boebert over cane comment

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) filed a resolution on Monday to formally censure far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for what Houlahan called "racist and derogatory" comments made about Rep. Al Green (D-TX), Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reported.

Green, who is Black, enraged President Donald Trump's supporters when he interrupted the president's address to Congress earlier this month, waving his cane and shouting that Trump had no "mandate" to cut Medicaid. He was forcibly removed from the chamber, and Republicans passed a resolution censuring him last week. Boebert then went on the far-right Real America's Voice News and said that Green was "shak[ing] his pimp cane" at Trump.

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"The words of the Representative from Colorado are disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives," states Houlahan's censure resolution.

“After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he’d have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Representative Al Green (D-TX),” Houlahan said in a statement.

Boebert, a former restaurant owner who was elected to Congress in 2020 to represent the Western Slope after gaining notoriety for ranting about gun rights, jumped ship to a more conservative district on the opposite side of the state after barely being re-elected in 2022 and facing a scandal after she was caught groping her date in public during a musical production in Denver.

Since starting her newest term, the drama has only continued, as she raised a false alarm about "a guy" in a women's restroom on Capitol Hill.