dc_dux

The full House has not voted yet.

But are you suggesting that the House use different standards for expulsion than other previous findings of ethics violations?

I would agree with you that the House needs to make its ethics penalties more punitive...but I dont agree with changing the rules in the middle of the game. In the history of Congress and most recently, the only Members expelled were those convicted of a crime in a criminal court...and a few expelled for their support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

A "censure" is more punitive than a "reprimand" and is fitting in this case, based on existing standards.

Let the Republicans, who will draft the new House rules, establish harsher punishment going forward. I would absolutely support such House rules.

But why do away with the OCE?

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