US Representatives yesterday voted to send a resolution concerning the expulsion of Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to the House Ethics Committee.
Fabulist Santos, who is facing multiple investigations and has been indicted on 13 counts of fraud and money laundering, has been dogged by controversy since it emerged at the start of the year that he had consistently lied about his career and background.
The House voted yesterday 221-204-7 to send a resolution demanding his expulsion to Ethics. All the ‘yeas’ were Republicans. The move effectively blocks House lawmakers from expelling Santos themselves.
Both Democratic and Republican reps have called on Santos to resign. However, pushing the decision to the Ethics Committee spares the bulk of GOP reps from having to cast a firm “yea” or “nay” vote on Santos’ expulsion.
Given that the Ethics panel members have already been investigating Santos for several weeks, it’s a largely redundant move.
Santos himself voted to send the resolution to Ethics, reports The Hill. He told reporters afterward he did so, “because there’s a process — in this country, everybody is innocent until proven guilty.”
Later, on Twitter, he posted the following statement.
“This evening, Congress referred H. Res. 114, a vote for expulsion, to the House Committee on Ethics. I fully respect this procedure as I have the utmost respect for the Ethics Committee as they work diligently to preserve and protect the integrity of this body. I have been and will continue to fully cooperate with the Ethics Committee and their investigation.”
Besides the lies he told about his background, the committee is investigating the gay, GOP lawmaker’s campaign finances. They want to determine if he engaged in unlawful activity.
Kerfuffle on the steps of Congress
After the House voted, Santos spoke to reporters on the steps outside Congress. As he did so, other lawmakers exited the building. Democratic, New York Reps.Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yelled at Santos to “resign” as they walked nearby.
“Have some dignity, New York deserves better,” continued Bowman.
George Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was also nearby. She and Bowman then got into their own heated discussion. Bowman told Greene the Republicans needed to get rid of Santos. Greene argued that it’s Biden who needs to go.
House Resolution 114 was introduced by gay, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (CA)
Garcia was scathing about the Republicans’ efforts to keep Santos in the House. He said, “The House Republicans are now officially the SAVE SANTOS CAUCUS.”
Related:
Robert Garcia & George Santos got into a Twitter catfight & you can probably guess who came out on top
The two gay lawmakers swapped barbs yesterday. Something tells us this won’t be the last time either.
George Santos shares comparison to Princess Diana (while quietly admitting theft charges)
Is this all some sort of game to Santos?
RIGay
The excerpts from Jamaal Bowman were played by Keith Olbermann on his “Countdown” podcast this morning. We need MORE of Jamaal!!! He does NOT back down! Loved hearing it! To paraphrase Keith said, “He has a voice that booms much like that of a Principal [before the invention of the megaphone]”.
BTW – Olbermann’s podcast can be found on iHeart Radio.
Superb.
Mister P
One need only look to the problem of mass shootings and lack of gun control to realize that republicans are never going to do the right thing.
Bromancer7
Republicans have never ONCE done the right thing. I don’t know why anything thinks they’re going to change anytime soon.
Fahd
If you’ve ever relied on Republicans to get something done, you’ve been disappointed.
As far as Santos is concerned, he’s starring in his own movie, bemused to see how far he can take it. He’s just another amoral conman with no sense of shame who gets off on flipping off decent people.
He claims to be gay — at least for the time being– but I’d like to see him getting less attention here on Queerty. Attention, whether positive or negative, feeds his pathology.
Openminded
“Any publicity is good publicity”, at least that’s what they claim.
abfab
Over it!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
This guy proves just how mediocre the NYC area GOP field is and how it needs to simply be disbanded. No need to waste time trying to organize the unorganizable. If Curtis Sliwa was the best they could come up with for a high profile position like mayor of NYC how can anyone be shocked that this guy saw how disorganized they were and seize on a opportunity that I seriously believe he himself didn’t think would go this far. It’s perfectly clear no one thought to check his background and ask questions. It’s even more shocking the jews of NYC didn’t start asking who was this guy when he claimed to be jewish. But then the jews also said absolutely nothing when the soon to be fired Laura Ingraham gave that nazi salute at the GOP convention. Go over on YouTube and see for yourself that so called “misunderstood wave” she claims to have given was what it was, a nazi salute.
DBMC
It says something that they would keep this clown, who makes them look bad, in office because Kevin McCarthy so desperately needs that one vote.
cheks
I’m honestly embarrassed by all of them. Why are congress members acting like high schoolers? Can we get some sane, respectable adults in congress?
I could never vote for any of them after seeing this video. I’m glad my elected officials aren’t acting like children in front of the press.