The Houston Democrat is recovering from abdominal surgery. Democrats did not expect him to attend the vote, but his surprise appearance sank the impeachment vote.
All of Texas’ House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the southern border, but the House fell short of passing the historic resolution on Tuesday after Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, rushed to the House from the hospital where he was recovering from abdominal surgery to vote no.
The impeachment failed on a 216-214 vote. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against the impeachment. The House has not impeached a member of a president’s cabinet in nearly 150 years.
The vote was extremely close, with the outcome unknown until the end of the vote. U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the House select committee on China, voted against the resolution. Numerous Republicans, including Texan Reps. Michael McCaul and Jodey Arrington were seen circling around Gallagher as he held out on his vote.
U.S. Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado and Tom McClintock of California also voted against impeachment. U.S. Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, ended up changing his vote to a no at the last minute, tanking the vote but allowing Republicans to bring it up again in the future.
House Republicans were counting on Green to be absent. But he arrived just in time in a wheelchair and scrubs to give Democrats enough votes to kill the impeachment.
Why would he have been in scrubs? He doesn’t work at the hospital, they don’t just hand those out to the patients.
out to the patients.
He had abdominal surgery. I’m guessing you stay there for a bit until everything checks out.
The hospital will have spare scrubs on hand, either for surgery or for staff to change if theirs get contaminated. Or, the patient pants are vaguely scrub like.
I’d guess they let him use some.
Well, maybe they meant hospital gown? Or they gave him scrubs so his balls would not have amy chance to see daylight? Or maybe it was a stunt to get attention.
Idk if it’s different in the US but when I went to a hospital in Canada for a broken leg they gave me scrubs and even let me keep the pants cause they were so comfy.
I cant speak to all of the states, but when I had leg issues as well, I was doing my therapy walking down the hall in a hospital gown.
I imagine he didn’t want to leave the hospital in an open-back hospital gown. So they gave him scrubs.
Why are people even focusing on this? Who fucking cares if he was wearing scrubs??
I can’t speak to all hospitals, but I once came in to drop off flowers and they put scrubs on me and gave me two extra sets to use at home, as well as a boxset of the first season of Scrubs.
Well I can no longer read Al as AL its ai always A.I. now
Fonts need to clearly differentiate a lowercase L from an uppercase i. It’s so frustrating I don’t understand why this bad fonts are so widespread
I don’t know either. For some reason we fell in love with Sans-Serif (e.g. Arial) for internet stuff. I’m guessing it’s because they look less “old fashioned” than that “newspaper-looking stuff.” Personally, I find serif fonts more readable, and they would distinguish "l" from "I".
What a fucking joke. Seems pretty clear that one of their goals is to completely remove any meaning from the word “impeach,” so Trump’s tenure doesn’t look as bad.
Really great priorities.
Were you around for Clinton? He got impeached for getting his knob sucked.
I don’t think Republicans have ever used it seriously.
Technically he got impeached for perjury. Pretty mild compared to Trump’s impeachments.
And they will still lie to their voters and blame everything on the Democrats.
It’s 2024 and congress still wants people to come in to the office to raise their hand.
