The guy who pulled the alarm deserved a censure.

I disagree. Since they can’t fine each other, censure is the strongest condemnation short of being stripped of committee assignments. While what he did wasn’t great, it was nowhere near serious enough to warrant censure.

You don’t fuck with fire alarms

Yeah you do. Schoolkids do it all the time.

but let’s not defend the guy who made the building less safe because he was late to a vote.

I’m not saying it wasn’t a bad thing to do but he didn’t make the building less safe. That’s a ridiculous hypothetical based on assuming likelihood of an extremely unlikely confluence of events.

You need to relax with the learned alarmism, pun intended.