Mike Johnson Says He’s Looking at ‘Real Consequences’ For Disruptive Democrats — Beyond Censure

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined Fox News’s Outnumbered on Friday and made a bit of news by confirming that he would look at further punishment for Rep. Al Green (D-TX) – who was censured this week for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.

Co-host Kayleigh McEnany noted that Green “becomes the fourth House Democrat to be censured in the last four years. And Hakeem Jeffries, your counterpart on the other side of the aisle, had this to say about the censure.”

McEnany then played a clip of Jeffries saying, “The censure resolution put forth by extreme MAGA Republicans is not worth the paper that it was written on.”

“He says it’s not worth the paper, and House Freedom Caucus members are asking to put forward a resolution to remove Al Green from his committee assignments. What are your thoughts on that?” McEnany asked Johnson.

“Well, the interesting thing is we — he was censured for disrupting the proceedings of the House. And while I was reading the censure that voted, I was voted in, by the way, by ten House Democrats who joined Republicans in that,” Johnson replied, adding:

They disrupted the proceedings of the House. So there’s some irony there. We have to keep decorum. We have to keep control of the proceedings, because we’re the greatest deliberative body in the world, and we need to act like it. And I think this went way over the line, by the way, these censures.

This is not a normal thing. I mean, he was only the 29th member of the House to be censured in the entire history of the U.S. Congress. So it was above the pale. He’s the first person to ever be removed from the floor during a presidential address. It was appropriate. And we’ve got to, we got to maintain control.

“You know, Emily’s going to hop in here. But just a quick follow up. What about his committee assignments? Do you think that’s on the table?” followed up McEnany.

“Well, I talked to Freedom Caucus members and other Republicans who are deeply concerned about this. They said we have to restore control one way or the other, and they need to be real consequences. And it’s something we’ll be looking at early next week,” replied Johnson.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.