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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 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 U.S. Senate has developed procedures for taking disciplinary action against senators through such measures as formal censure or actual expulsion from the Senate. The Senate has two basic forms of punishment available to it: expulsion, which requires a two-thirds vote; or censure, which requires a majority vote. [30]
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Short of expulsion, Congress has other serious disciplinary measures, including censure and reprimand: legislative procedures under which the full House, by majority vote on a simple resolution ...
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Tuesday reiterated his call for the expulsion of his colleague Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., from Congress after a federal grand jury filed a second superseding ...
Insulting the House with a resolution containing unparliamentary language. Lovell Rousseau: Unconditional Unionist: Kentucky 89–30 Assaulting Rep. Josiah Grinnell on the floor of the House. 1867 John W. Hunter: Democratic: New York 77–33 Using unparliamentary language. 1868 Fernando Wood: 114–39 1869 Edward D. Holbrook: Idaho Territory: 1870
Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only 15 members, 14 of them for their role in the Confederacy. The last expulsion occurred in 1862, when a group of senators were removed for supporting the ...