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The U.S. Senate voted to censure which senator by a vote of 67 to 22 in 1954?

censure

[sen-sher] / ˈsɛn ʃər /




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I don’t think anyone can, or should, draw a straight medical line from a Communist Party censure to a cancer diagnosis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

"If the deputies decide to table a motion of censure or no confidence, they are capable of doing so," he added.

From Barron's May 24, 2026

Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

Fine has not appeared fearful of censure or any loss of his committee assignments.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

Plato, who was small like his father, sang out with mock censure, “Shame on you, Callie. What did you do?”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him," the statement continued.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

It still demands collusion, censures dissent, confuses the exertion of power with the protest against it.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

Gorsuch said that didn’t mean all censures are alike, and that such condemnation sometimes might not be acceptable, depending upon the recipient.

From Washington Post Mar. 24, 2022

Barrett Marson, a Republican political strategist, said that those censures of prominent Arizona Republicans by their own party had little effect, and that he doubted the censure alone would hurt Ms. Sinema’s political fortunes.

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2022

B. has doubtless most excellent qualities, but he thinks himself utterly without faults, and yet is most open to blame for those for which he censures others.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

The City Council formally censured Lopez in 2022, barred him from committee appointments and limited his interactions with city staff outside of meetings.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2025

It’s infrequent that a judge is publicly or privately censured.

From Slate Dec. 11, 2025

In response, Mr. Karrubi is neither punished nor censured.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

FBI agents at field offices and at headquarters who resisted Gray’s power were censured, fired or transferred.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2025

With high-stakes testing, a teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Critics are censuring Mr. Warsh for turning his back on those goals.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

In an exactly split tally, half of voting members supported censuring Block, but the measure did not pass because it required a simple majority.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2024

But make no mistake about its significance: Parliament censuring a man who was prime minister as recently as September in the strongest possible terms.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2023

For decades after, Congress reconvened only intermittently to take pressing post-election actions, like censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and impeaching President Bill Clinton in 1998, or to resolve particular legislative debates.

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2022

“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen




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