The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to advance a resolution led by the GOP, aiming to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York. The censure comes in response to an incident in late September when Bowman triggered a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building, causing an evacuation. The final vote on whether to pass the censure resolution is expected to take place on Thursday.

Bowman's actions were caught on tape as he pulled the fire alarm just before the House was set to vote on a government funding bill. He claimed that he accidentally triggered the alarm, stating that he thought it would open a door he was trying to access. Bowman expressed his intentions were to reach his voting location, but was met with a closed door instead of the typically open pathway.

Despite efforts from the Democratic side, a motion to table the resolution and block it was voted down by a margin of 201 to 216 in Wednesday's House vote. Following the incident, Bowman faced charges from the DC attorney general and later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for falsely triggering the fire alarm in a House office building.

Censure is a rare and significant form of rebuke for a member of Congress, although it does not carry any explicit penalties beyond a public admonition of the lawmaker. Republican Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan introduced the resolution to censure Bowman, emphasizing that nobody, including members of Congress, is above the law.

CNN has reached out to Bowman's office for comment regarding the resolution. The censure resolution is being brought forward less than a week after the House voted to expel GOP Rep. George Santos of New York, who had been indicted. Expulsion is the most severe form of punishment for a member of Congress, and it marked the end of Santos' troubled tenure on Capitol Hill. The process of expulsion is extremely rare and requires a two-thirds majority vote to succeed, representing a challenging threshold to meet.