House Republicans plan to vote Wednesday evening on a motion to refer a Democratic-sponsored resolution to expel Rep. George Santos to the Ethics Committee.
was introduced on Tuesday by Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and is privileged, which means Republican leaders must schedule a vote by Thursday.
Republicans will try to bypass a vote on the bill itself, however, by referring it to the House Committee on Ethics, which has been investigating Santos since early March.House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., sent out a notice Wednesday telling lawmakers that they would vote on a motion to refer the resolution to the Ethics panel around 5 p.m.
Garcia called McCarthy's approach"a cop-out" at a press conference on Wednesday morning."This is already in the Ethics Committee," Garcia said."We want an actual vote on the expulsion." Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., a former federal prosecutor, suggested that the Ethics Committee wouldn't take any action on the resolution, and would instead defer to the Department of Justice, which last week"Prosecutors are going to ask the Ethics Committee to pause and let their prosecution go first," he said."That’s what I did for 10 years, that is the nature of how these things work.
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