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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., will force a high-profile vote later this week to require the release of sexual harassment reports involving members of Congress.
Mace said Tuesday that her resolution was drafted in response to recent reports alleging that Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, sent sexually explicit text messages to a former staffer. Regina Santos-Aviles, the one-time aide, later died by suicide in September 2025.
“I mean, literally, this girl killed herself in the most heinous way,” Mace told Fox News Digital when asked if the Gonzales allegations were her motivation for the resolution. “She literally lit herself on fire and died, and we’re just going to sit here and say, ‘Let the process play out?’ No.”
Gonzales has denied the affair and suggested he is being blackmailed by the attorney of Santos-Aviles’ husband.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., pictured at the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., on Aug. 4, 2025. (Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“What you have seen is not all the facts, and there’ll be ample time for all of that,” Gonzales told reporters last week.
Mace’s resolution would specifically require the House Ethics Committee to publicly release all records regarding acts of sexual harassment involving lawmakers or their staffers within 60 days of enactment.
The South Carolina lawmaker said on the House floor that she will deem the resolution “privileged,” meaning House leadership will have two legislative days to vote on the measure. Lawmakers could also vote to table the resolution or refer it to committee, a way to kill legislation before having to weigh the measure itself.
Mace said she expected a vote on the House floor by Thursday but voiced pessimism when asked by Fox News Digital if she thought the resolution would succeed.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is seen in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 18, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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