Several Republicans joined House Democrats on Wednesday to kill a GOP effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) over a chaotic scrum with law enforcement that unfolded as a group of officials attempted to tour a detention center and immigration agents arrested the Newark mayor.

A Democratic effort to table the censure motion was approved 215-207. The censure proposal was sponsored by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), and would also have removed McIver from her post on the House Homeland Security Committee.

In total, four Republicans — Reps. Mike Flood (Neb.), Don Bacon (Neb.), David Joyce (Ohio) and David Valadao (Calif.) — sided with Democrats to crush the measure, while House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) voted "present." Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) accidentally sided with Democrats during the vote but has submitted a correction, with an aide saying he “supports removing Rep. LaMonica McIver from the Homeland Security Committee.”

McIver had previously blasted the GOP-led resolution.

“We were all elected to do the people’s work. I take that responsibility seriously—Clay Higgins clearly does not. Instead of making life any better for the people he represents, he’s seeking to punish me for doing what he and his caucus are too cowardly to do: conduct real oversight, stand up to this administration, and do our jobs,” she said in a Tuesday statement ahead of the vote.

“If House Republicans think they can make me run scared, they’re wrong.”

During the vote, the proceedings were repeatedly interrupted by Democrats shouting, “You’re not in order.”

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