It may be harder to get kicked out of Congress than it is to get elected in the first place.
There’s been no shortage of scoundrels elected to the House and Senate, but only an exclusive few have actually been expelled – although the Constitution explicitly gives both chambers the power to “with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.”
Rep. George Santos – the New York Republican with problems telling the truth and who is under federal indictment for fraud, money laundering, theft and stealing donors’ identities – may actually become just the third federally elected lawmaker since the Civil War to be kicked out of the House by his peers later this week.
In a rambling and expletive-laden rant on X on Friday, Santos said he’s “done the math over and over” and he expects to be expelled this week.
It takes a special blend of bad behavior and tolerance for shame to get to the point of actual House expulsion.
The only other expelled representatives since the Civil War had already been found guilty in federal court and still refused to resign.
Michael “Ozzie” Myers, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was expelled from the House in 1980 after he was convicted as part of an infamous FBI investigation known as ABSCAM, in which he and other lawmakers were caught up in a sting operation taking bribes to help a fictional Arab sheikh.
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