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On the one hand, the House’s vote Wednesday against expelling Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from its ranks was almost a foregone conclusion. The final vote — 179 in favor of expulsion, 213 against and 19 voting present — was well short of a majority, let alone the two-thirds the privileged resolution needed to pass. But the vote was unexpectedly bipartisan.
But many of the resolutions’ co-sponsors have been actively calling on Santos to resign, and Republican leadership reportedly had to work to persuade them to support punting a previous Democratic-sponsored resolution to the Ethics Committee. Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., one of the co-sponsors, has already said he plans to offer the resolution again after the Ethics Committee releases its report.
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