Republicans are expected to try to bypass a vote by referring it to the House Ethics Committee.
from Congress, but Republicans are expected to block its passage by referring the bill to a committee that's already investigating him.
"We can look at this very quickly and come to a conclusion on what George Santos did and did not do through Ethics — a safe, bipartisan committee, equal number of Republicans and Democrats," he told reporters."I think they can come back to Congress probably faster than a court case could." "That is the nature of how these things work," Goldman said."And traditionally, the Ethics Committee will defer to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution."
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