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Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a member of Congress. [1] The United States Constitution (Article I, Section 5, Clause 2) provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."
The other House member to be expelled since the Civil War, James Traficant Jr., an Ohio Democrat, was removed from office after being convicted in a bribery and racketeering scandal in 2002 ...
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history. Three of those six were expelled in 1861 for joining the Confederate States of America. [2]
If the House of Representatives votes to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress, he would join the rare club of members booted from the lower chamber.. Expulsions from the House are so ...
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
The House voted Friday to expel GOP Rep. George Santos, a historic vote that will make the New York congressman the sixth lawmaker ever to be expelled from the chamber.
Only five representatives have ever been expelled from the House in the course of US history. ... This remains an issue being played out publicly in New York court, where two of his former ...
Sentenced to 3 years and was expelled from the House. [77] Frank Thompson (D-NJ) Sentenced to 3 years. [78] John M. Murphy (D-NY) Served 20 months of a 3-year sentence. [79] Jon Hinson (R-MS) was arrested for having homosexual oral sex in the House of Representatives' bathroom with a government staffer. Hinson, who was married, later received a ...