WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday voted to publicly rebuke retiring Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., over his ploy to handpick his Democratic successor for his Chicago-area congressional seat.

On a 236-183 vote, the House passed a resolution authored by a fellow Democrat, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, disapproving of Garcia's actions this fall, which set up his chief of staff as the sole Democrat on the primary ballot to replace him in a deep-blue district. Twenty-three Democrats joined nearly all Republicans in voting yes on the resolution.

The Garcia rebuke came shortly after the House overwhelmingly passed a bill to force the release of the government's Jeffrey Epstein files. Some Democrats lamented that the disapproval vote highlighted Democratic divisions at a time when the party is un

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