A House Democrat responded Tuesday to GOP efforts to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) by forcing his own vote to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.).

Why it matters: It's a prime example of censure increasingly being used as a partisan weapon rather than the House's most harsh rebuke from rule-breaking aside from expulsion. • The introduction of censure resolutions, along with impeachment, expulsion and contempt measures, has spiked in recent years. • Members of both parties have also been pushing back against the trivialization of censure by voting to defeat censure measures against members of the opposing party.

Driving the news: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) took to the House floor Tuesday to force a vote on her resolution censuring Omar for her critical comments and posts about Charlie

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