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  • H. RES. 1272 is a resolution that urges the Biden Administration to take action against Iran's nuclear activities. It calls for censuring Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and referring the issue to the United Nations Security Council. The resolution emphasizes the need...

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    The bill wants the president and his team to team up with other countries and make sure Iran doesn't get any dangerous nuclear toys, like the kind that go boom, by working with special global groups to keep an eye on things.

  • H. RES. 189 is a resolution to formally censure Representative Al Green of Texas. The censure is due to his conduct during a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025, when he interrupted the President's speech, causing disruptions. The resolution requires Representative...

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    H. RES. 189 is a plan to officially scold a congressman named Al Green because he interrupted the President while he was talking, making a scene during a big meeting of lawmakers. This scolding will be read out loud by the Speaker in the House of Representatives to let everyone know what he did.

  • H. RES. 1454 is a resolution submitted by Ms. Greene of Georgia to censure Representatives Bennie Thompson, Troy Carter, Barbara Lee, Frederica Wilson, Yvette Clarke, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jasmine Crockett, Joyce Beatty, and Steve Cohen. It accuses them of inciting violence,...

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    In this proposal from Congress, some lawmakers are being accused of saying or doing things that might have made people want to hurt former President Trump. The resolution wants to officially tell them they did something wrong, but it doesn't show clear proof of what they might have done.

  • H. RES. 1244 is a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to censure Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. of the Supreme Court. The resolution claims that Justice Alito violated the Federal recusal statute and ethics standards by not stepping away from cases related to the...

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    In this resolution, people in the U.S. House of Representatives are upset with a judge named Justice Alito because they say he didn’t step away from making decisions on cases he might be biased about, like those related to the 2020 election. They want to officially tell him that he should stay out of these cases in the future to be fair.

  • H. RES. 189 is a resolution from the U.S. House of Representatives to censure Representative Al Green of Texas. The resolution states that during a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025, Representative Green interrupted the President's speech, which disrupted the...

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    H. RES. 189 says that a man named Al Green, who works in the government, interrupted the President when he was talking, and this made people upset. Because of this, the government wants him to come in front of everyone and be told that he did something wrong.

  • H. RES. 1207 is a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives on May 7, 2024, that seeks to officially censure Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her remarks about Jewish students, which are characterized as hateful and antisemitic. The resolution details...

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    H. RES. 1207 is a plan from the U.S. House of Representatives to officially scold Representative Ilhan Omar for saying things about Jewish people that some believe are hurtful and mean. This is like telling someone they shouldn't say those kinds of things because they might make others feel upset or unsafe.

  • H. RES. 1463 is a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives on September 18, 2024, which aims to censure Representative Bennie Thompson for his alleged role in inciting violence against former President Donald Trump, including two assassination attempts. The...

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    In September 2024, some members of the House of Representatives wanted to officially scold Representative Bennie Thompson because they believe he said things that made people want to harm former President Donald Trump. They want Mr. Thompson to come to the House and hear this scolding in front of everyone.

  • H. RES. 1500 proposes to formally censure Representative Glen Clay Higgins from Louisiana for making a racist post on his official account on X, disparaging Haitians and Haitian Americans. The resolution calls for Higgins to stand in the well of the House of Representatives...

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    In this bill, lawmakers are saying that Glen Clay Higgins, a member of the government from Louisiana, should be officially told off for saying something mean and racist about people from Haiti on the internet. They want him to stand in front of everyone in a big meeting while they say out loud that what he did was wrong.

  • H. RES. 132 is a resolution that aims to censure Representative Robert Garcia of California. The resolution accuses him of inciting violence against Elon Reeve Musk, who is serving as a special government employee. It claims that Representative Garcia made derogatory and...

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    H. RES. 132 is like when someone gets in trouble for saying mean and scary things about someone else, in this case, a person named Robert Garcia who said bad stuff about Elon Musk. This means the people in charge want him to admit he was wrong and say sorry in front of everyone.

  • H. RES. 202 is a resolution put forward in the U.S. House of Representatives to censure Representative Lauren Boebert from Colorado due to comments she made about Representative Al Green from Texas. During a March 7, 2025 interview, Boebert made remarks that were seen as derogatory and...

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    In this bill, some people in the group where U.S. representatives work think that Lauren Boebert, who is part of their team, said some unkind things about another team member, Al Green. They want to let her know that this behavior is not okay by asking her to come and listen to them say she's in trouble for her words.

  • H. RES. 1007 aims to amend the rules of the House of Representatives regarding the privileging of certain resolutions. It proposes that resolutions meant to impeach an officer, or censure, reprimand, or expel a member should only be given privileged status if they are backed...

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    In Congress, there's a proposal to make new rules about when certain big decisions, like getting someone in trouble, can be considered super important and need to be decided quickly. These decisions only get to be super important if there's a report from a special group or if a big team of people agree together that it should be important.

  • H. RES. 197 is a resolution aimed at censuring Representative Al Green of Texas for his actions during a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. The resolution states that Representative Green interrupted President Donald J. Trump’s address and was removed from the...

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    H. RES. 197 is a proposal to officially scold a person named Al Green, who works in the Texas part of the government, because he interrupted an important speech. This scolding would be read out loud where he works to let everyone know he broke the rules of being polite.

  • S. RES. 717 is a resolution urging the Biden Administration to take action against Iran for its nuclear activities. The resolution calls for the U.S. to seek a formal censure of Iran through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to refer the situation to the...

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    The resolution is like a big reminder from the U.S. asking everyone to work together to make sure Iran doesn’t get special tools to build powerful and dangerous things, like nuclear weapons, and to tell them to follow the rules just like everyone else does.

  • H. RES. 970 is a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives on January 17, 2024, which aims to censure Representative Elise Stefanik from New York's 21st Congressional District. The resolution details multiple instances where Representative Stefanik allegedly...

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    The resolution wants to give a public "time-out" to a Congress member named Elise Stefanik because she said and did things that some people think weren't nice or true about how we vote and what happened at the Capitol. This would make her stand in front of everyone in the House while they say why she's getting this time-out.

  • H. RES. 193 is a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives to censure Representative Al Green of Texas. The censure is due to his actions during the State of the Union address on March 4, 2024, where he interrupted the President's speech and was eventually removed...

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    H. RES. 193 is about a group of people in the House of Representatives wanting to tell a man named Al Green he did something wrong. During an important speech, he interrupted and wasn't polite, so they want to give him a time-out by reading a message out loud saying what he did was not okay.

  • H. RES. 258 is a resolution in the House of Representatives to censure Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas. This action is proposed due to Representative Crockett's remarks at a Human Rights Campaign event on March 22, 2025, where she referred to the Governor of Texas,...

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    A group in the House of Representatives wants to officially tell off a Congresswoman from Texas named Jasmine Crockett because she said mean things about the Governor of Texas in a speech. They want to make sure everyone knows she was wrong by reading about what she did in front of everyone in the House.