WASHINGTON — The House officially rebuked Rep. Al Green, who Republicans ejected from the chamber Tuesday night for standing and heckling President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress.

A resolution of censure passed 224-198 on Thursday, with 10 Democrats joining Republicans in support of the punishment. Green and Rep. Shomari Figures, a first-term Democrat from Alabama, voted “present.”

But when Green stepped into the well of the House to receive his official scolding for a “breach of proper conduct,” the floor devolved into a scene of chaos. The Texas Democrat led a crowd of his colleagues in singing the gospel anthem “We Shall Overcome” as Speaker Mike Johnson raised his voice and finished reading out the censure.

Johnson, R-La., was forced to call a brief recess as Republicans and Democrats lingered on the floor, shouting at each other.

It was another dramatic moment after Green’s outburst Tuesday, reflecting a determination among some Democrats to aggressively resist Trump, even as others in the party urge a more staid and sober strategy for pushing back.

“The decorum that you expect from me, you have to expect from the president,” Green said later in a fiery speech from the House floor.

He made the case for Democrats to engage in “righteous indignation and righteous incivility” in the face of Trump’s language, tactics and attempts to circumvent Congress and the law.

“There comes a time when you cannot allow the president’s incivility to take advantage of our civility,” he said. “It is time for us to take that stand.”

Some of his fellow Democrats appeared to disagree. Reps. Ami Bera of California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Laura Gillen of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Tom Suozzi of New York voted to censure Green.

The progressive activist group Indivisible called the defections “cowardly and unacceptable.”

A censure is one of the highest forms of reprimand in the House. The resolution is a formal and public condemnation or disapproval of a member’s behavior. But in recent years, the bar for such moves has lowered considerably, as Democrats and Republicans have used it to settle political scores.

The last member to be censured by the House was then-Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who received the rebuke in 2023 after he pulled a fire alarm in a Capitol office building during a critical vote, leading Republicans to accuse him of deliberately trying to stall business on the floor.

On Thursday, it appeared that the partisan battle over Green’s actions was only beginning.

One Republican, Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, announced that he planned to draft privileged resolutions to strip committee assignments from Green and the other Democrats who gathered behind him on the House floor and sang as he was rebuked.

Later in his response, Green read the full censure resolution aloud and reiterated what he told reporters Wednesday: that he would accept the consequences for his actions Tuesday and that he harbored no ill will toward the speaker or anyone else. He would do it again, he said, because he cares about people on Medicaid, a program many of his constituents rely on that is under threat from Republicans’ budget plan.

Green also called out what he said was a double standard for Trump, who labeled Democratic members of Congress “lunatics” in his speech and received no condemnation from Republicans, official or otherwise.

And he put his protest in the context of the Civil Rights Movement that allowed people like him to have the chance to serve in Congress in the first place.

“I remember what it took to get me in this House — I’m not here because I’m so smart,” Green said. “I’m here because people made great sacrifices, and it was incivility, it was disruption.”

Outbursts from lawmakers have happened on both sides of the political aisle.

Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., noted that Republicans were silent when members of their conference interrupted Democratic President Joe Biden’s speech last year.

Some yelled “say her name” in reference to slain nursing student Laken Riley, as Biden spoke about immigration legislation that some lawmakers were working on.

“Nobody apologized for interrupting Joe Biden time and again,” McGovern said. “You talk about lack of decorum. Go back and look at the tapes, and there was silence from the other side.”

Associated Press contributed.