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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 ...
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 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]
It almost seems to be harder to get kicked out of Congress than it is to get elected in the first place.
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 ...
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.
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., a fellow Long Islander and one of 105 Republicans who voted for expulsion, said Santos deserved it for lying his way into Congress and defrauding his constituents.
(See his Wikipedia article and Wikipedia article 'List of United States senators from Montana') Clark was voted into the Senate in 1899 and expelled (forced to resign) in 1900. He then turned around and got himself elected to Montana's other Senate seat in 1901.