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Multiple resignations shake up House of Representatives
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on a wave of House departures, including resignations and the death of Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., as the Senate faces off over funding for I.C.E. and Border Patrol on ‘Special Report.’
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It’s time for spring cleaning.
Specifically, House spring cleaning.
As in the House of Representatives.
Former Reps. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., resigned last week amid allegations of sexual harassment — and even sexual assault in the case of Swalwell. An aide with whom Gonzales had an affair set herself on fire and died.
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Rep. Tony Gonzales and Rep. Eric Swalwell are shown speaking separately in a split image. (Getty)
Former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., resigned this week moments before the House Ethics Committee was slated to recommend expulsion as the panel found she violated 25 House rules. The Florida Democrat faces trial next winter for allegedly bilking FEMA out of $5 million in pandemic relief — and then funneling it to her campaign.
“She was put in an absolutely terrible position by the Ethics Committee. This was not a fair process,” argued Cherfilus-McCormick’s attorney William Barzee. “But she was left with no choice (but to resign).”
Barzee asserted that the ethics panel shouldn’t prescribe punishment for his client until her separate criminal trial is complete. The House used to sit out on launching ethics inquiries for members facing criminal charges.
INDICTED DEMOCRAT SHEILA CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK FACES RARE HOUSE ETHICS HEARING
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on March 27, 2025. She is facing an expulsion threat after a House panel found her guilty of more than two dozen ethics violations. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll…
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