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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]
Canada is a founding member of NATO and remains a member. In 2019 the Green Party advocated a review of Canadian membership of the alliance. [3] The position of the social-democratic New Democratic Party is complicated; [4] while there is general support for NATO membership within the party, including from former party leaders Jack Layton and Tom Mulcair, [5] the NDP Socialist Caucus advocates ...
Pages in category "Expelled members of the United States House of Representatives" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is staring down another likely expulsion vote after the House Ethics Committee published scathing accusations of lies and misallocation of funds in a report earlier ...
The other House member to be expelled since the Civil War, James Traficant Jr., an Ohio Democrat, was removed from office after being convicted in a bribery and racketeering scandal in 2002 ...
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 United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
Former members of Congress have been expelled after being charged with treason, corruption or supporting the Confederacy. George Santos could join list of Confederates, felons booted from Congress ...