House Republicans on Wednesday dodged Democrats’ power play to force a vote on expelling disgraced Rep. George Santos from Congress, sending the resolution instead to the Ethics Committee.
The GOP motion to jettison the resolution to the House Ethics Committee passed in a party-line 220-204 vote.
The Ethics Committee is already investigating Mr. Santos, a Republican who was revealed to have lied about most of his life story — including having Jewish heritage — to get elected in last year his district on New York’s Long Island.“This is already in the Ethics Committee,” he said before the vote. “We want an actual vote on the expulsion.”
The embattled congressman called the charges against him a “witch hunt.” He has said will not resign from office, despite calls to do so from GOP lawmakers in the New York delegation. “Prosecutors are going to ask the Ethics Committee to pause and let their prosecution go first,” Mr. Goldman said. “That’s what I did for 10 years, that is the nature of how these things work. And traditionally, the Ethics Committee will defer to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution and Kevin McCarthy knows that.”
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