The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol Hill office building in order to delay a vote to avert a government shutdown. The lower chamber

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York for falsely pulling a fire alarm in late September.

The House voted Thursday morning to censure progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y) for pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building before a high-stakes floor vote to stave off a government shutdown in September, a move criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that Bowman has repeatedly called an accident.

House Republicans censured Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on Thursday after he falsely pulled a fire alarm in a House office building in September, hitting the New York Democrat with a congressional

The New York Democrat was just the 27th member in history to be censured, joining a small but growing group of publicly shamed members.