Washington DC – The US House voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar on Wednesday in light of a graphic video he posted on Twitter.

In a 223-207-1 vote that was mostly along party lines, the House effectively voted to censure Gosar, and thus stripped him of his committee assignments for the House Oversight and Reform Committee and the Natural Resources Committee.

The vote marks the first time the House has voted to censure a sitting member in over 10 years.

The move to censure Gosar came after the representative out of Arizona posted an anime video that depicted himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking migrants.

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Two Republicans, Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Liz Cheney, voted alongside all the Democrats in favor of the censure resolution. One Republican, Rep. David Joyce, voted present, which means he took no position on the matter.

Prior to the vote, several representatives took the House floor to speak in favor of, and against, the censure resolution.

In effort to defend his actions and his character, Gosar took the podium to share various remarks with the House.

"I rise today to address and reject the mischaracterization, accusations from many in this body that the cartoon from my office is dangerous or threatening – it was not," Gosar said.

Gosar attempted to further explain his opinion that the cartoon directly depicts the battles of open border policies of the Biden Administration, and thus was not violent in nature.

The author of the censure resolution, Rep. Jackie Speier, also addressed the House prior to the vote, saying, "It is disgusting and profoundly unacceptable. Tragically, the minority leader has not condemned the video. For eight days, he said nothing. Silence speaks volume. Silence normalizes violence."

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, who appeared to be killed by Gosar's anime self in the graphic video, condemned her colleague's actions and the defense of it by House minority leader Kevin McCarthy prior to the vote.

“In response to the Republican leader’s remarks when he says that this action is unprecedented: What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body,” Ocasio-Cortez said.