King ran for reelection in 2020 but was beaten in the primary by a state senator who had the backing of national and state party forces who wanted King gone for obvious reasons. Both parties turned on him, with the Republican Steering Committee yanking all of his committee assignments. His political end came in January 2019 when he questioned aloud why “white nationalism” and “white supremacism” were held in low regard. Steve King (R-Iowa), who was given a pass for many years despite his frequent racist utterances and white-nationalist sentiments. Wilson is still in the House, but not so Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) received after shouting, “You lie,” during President Barack Obama’s 2009 State of the Union address. You may recall the official congressional rebuke Rep. A host of representatives and senators have suffered the shame of censure or reprimand for their conduct since the establishment of Congress. It can censure a member with a simple majority, forcing her to stand in session and listen to her colleagues rebuke, or otherwise reprimand her.
Expulsion, which takes a two-thirds majority vote, isn’t the only punishment the House can mete out.
The House has used this power sparingly, giving three members the boot in 1861 for supporting the Confederacy and two more recently after they were convicted on criminal charges of bribery. The Constitution gives the House wide latitude to expel members for violating its rules, breaking the law or engaging in “disorderly behavior.” Without a doubt, Capitol Hill would be a saner, more civil place if Greene were catapulted from her seat back to Georgia, where she came from. Her articles of impeachment won’t go anywhere, but they gave us a pocket preview of her flagpole-sitting skills. 21, shortly after Joe Biden took the oath, Greene filed, as she had promised, articles of impeachment against him. She subscribes to or has promoted an awful bunch of irrational and absurd ideas and positions, so irrational and absurd that you’d be doing her a favor by calling them merely “fringe.” She has trafficked in false QAnon claims of a global pedophilic-satanic cabal involving top Democrats and Hollywood celebrities she “liked” a comment suggesting the Parkland school massacre was a “false flag” operation and asserted much the same about the Sandy Hook killings she appeared to support the execution s of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi (also accusing Pelosi of treason) suggested the Las Vegas shooting was part of a plot to abolish the Second Amendment claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen and asserted the 2018 midterms, in which Democrats took the House, represented “an Islamic invasion of our government.” On Jan. As CNN, the Washington Post, POLITICO and a score of other outlets have reported, Greene is a shambles of a human being.