Split along party lines, the House voted Tuesday to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for shouting "You lie!" during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress last week.

The vote was 240-179.

Democrats insisted that Wilson apologize to the full House for what some considered a serious breach of decorum. Republicans criticized the vote as political.

Wilson told his colleagues on the House floor today: "I think it is clear to the American people that there are far more important issues facing this nation than what we are addressing right now. . . . [The president] graciously accepted my apology, and the issue is over."

Not all Democrats voted for the resolution

"I think he should man up, but I'm not sure we should push him to do it," Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democratic delegate from Washington, D.C., was quoted as saying. “If it looks like we're trying to humiliate the guy, we play straight into their hands."

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