What is Censure?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was censured for “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel” and for conduct unbecoming of a representative.

Passed by a vote of 234 - 188:

• Republicans 212-4
• Democrats 22-184

The Constitution grants the House broad power to discipline its Members for acts that range from criminal misconduct to violations of internal House Rules. Over the decades, several forms of discipline have evolved in the House. The most severe type of punishment by the House is expulsion, which is followed by censure, and finally reprimand.

Censure registers the House’s deep disapproval of Member misconduct that, nevertheless, does not meet the threshold for expulsion. Once the House approves the sanction by majority vote, the censured Member must stand in the well of the House (“the bar of the House” was the nineteenth-century term) while the Speaker or presiding officer reads aloud the censure resolution and its preamble as a form of public rebuke. -- U.S. House of Representatives: Office of the Historian

• Tlaib was not required to stand in the well.
• There is no "punishment for being censured.
• Twenty-six members have been censured.