Surprise bipartisan coalition shields McIver from GOP censure push

Five Republicans joined Democrats to block a resolution censuring the New Jersey congresswoman in a rare cross-party stand that turned back Republican efforts to strip her of a committee seat.

The House on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) and strip her of her seat on the Homeland Security Committee, with a handful of GOP lawmakers joining Democrats in a 215–207–2 vote that amounted to a surprising bipartisan defense of the chamber’s oversight role.

Five Republicans—Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Mike Flood