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The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history. Three of those six were expelled in 1861 for joining the Confederate States of America. [2]
On July 12, 1999, the U.S. House of Representatives censured (in a 355-to-0 vote) a scientific publication titled "A Meta-analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples", by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovich, and Robert Bauserman; (see Rind et al. controversy) which was published in the American Psychological ...
Pages in category "Censured or reprimanded members of the United States House of Representatives" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The House of Representatives censured Rep. Adam B. Schiff in a party-line, 213-209 vote Wednesday, and the Burbank Democrat seems delighted. The censure was a victory for Donald Trump, who had ...
Before that, the last censure occurred more than a decade earlier. On Dec. 2, 2010, the House censured Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., for a variety of ethics violations ...
If the House of Representatives votes to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress, ... The House has censured members 25 times and issued 11 reprimands.
Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a member of Congress. [1] The United States Constitution (Article I, Section 5, Clause 2) provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."
What does it mean to be censured? The House of Representatives procedure puts members in a bad light. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...