Blunt's support for silencing Warren contrasts with his vote against censuring GOP congressman

Blunt's support for silencing Elizabeth Warren contrasts with his vote against censuring GOP congressman

WASHINGTON • Sen. Roy Blunt joined other Republicans Tuesday night and voted to formally silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren mid-speech for bad-mouthing Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator nominated for attorney general.

But in 2009, Blunt, R-Mo., struck a different posture towards Congressional decorum.

Back then Washington was debating President Barack Obama's health care proposal when, in September of that year, the president touted his plan in a primetime speech to a joint session of Congress. Obama was saying the legislation would not cover illegal immigrants when a shout cut across the chamber: "You lie!"

It was Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, a fourth-term congressman from South Carolina. He pointed at Obama and yelled a second time that Obama was lying. (In fact, the Affordable Care Act does not allow undocumented immigrants to purchase health insurance, though some conservatives have pointed to loopholes.)

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