{"id":15834,"date":"2025-11-19T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mace-moves-to-censure-fellow-republican-mills\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:31:45","slug":"mace-moves-to-censure-fellow-republican-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mace-moves-to-censure-fellow-republican-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Mace moves to censure fellow Republican Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Nancy Mace is moving ahead with an effort to censure and strip a fellow Republican of his committee assignments in a rare intraparty escalation.<\/p>\n

The South Carolina Republican came to the House floor Wednesday afternoon to roll out a measure to formally rebuke Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) over his alleged ethical violations<\/u><\/a> and to remove him from the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.<\/p>\n

A vote is expected as soon as Wednesday night on the censure resolution. Republicans are expected to offer a motion to set the matter aside.<\/p>\n

It comes the day after Democrats threatened to force a vote on their own measure to censure Mills \u2014 if Republicans were successful in censuring Del. Stacey Paskett. But Democrats stood down after Republicans fell short<\/u><\/a> in efforts to kick the Virgin Islands Democrat off the House Intelligence Committee following revelations she was texting the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 House Oversight Committee hearing. <\/p>\n

The series of events on the House floor sparked accusations from some Republicans that there was a backroom deal between the two parties to facilitate a detente. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries demurred at a press conference Wednesday when asked if he\u2019d cut such a deal, instead reupping threats to bring forward more censure resolutions against Republicans as partisan tensions boil over across the chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are not going to unilaterally disarm, and there’s a long list of Republicans worthy of<\/p>\n

censure. Not enough time in the legislative calendar if Republicans want to go down this road of censuring members,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, one of three House Republicans who voted with all Democrats against the Plaskett censure resolution, said some rank-and-file members tried \u201cto talk me into\u201d voting \u201cyes\u201d but that he \u201cdidn\u2019t talk to leadership about the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Speaker Mike Johnson didn\u2019t immediately respond to an inquiry, nor did Mills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Nancy Mace is moving ahead with an effort to censure and strip a fellow Republican of his committee assignments in a rare intraparty escalation. The South Carolina Republican came to the House floor Wednesday afternoon to roll out a measure to formally rebuke Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) over his alleged ethical violations and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}