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New York House Republicans on Thursday moved to force a vote on whether to expel their embattled and indicted colleague Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress. The privileged resolution offered by Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., means the House must vote on the resolution within two legislative days. A two-thirds majority vote would be needed to expel the congressman, who's scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a superseding indictment in his federal fraud case.
, said they waited until the day after Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was elected speaker to proceed out of 'deference' and to give him a day to 'bask in the glow' of his win, but added, 'it’s never the wrong time to do the right thing. And we need to clean up the Santos mess for Long Island, for New York and for the House of Representatives.
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