{"id":21364,"date":"2026-04-15T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-cory-mills-under-fire-but-not-going-anywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:02:13","slug":"capitol-agenda-cory-mills-under-fire-but-not-going-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-cory-mills-under-fire-but-not-going-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Cory Mills under fire but not going anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may hear House members calling for his ouster after the resignations of Reps. Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell, but Rep. Cory Mills looks to be on solid footing.<\/p>\n

Despite months of scrutiny over a range of conduct issues \u2014 including accusations of illicit involvement in federal contracts and stolen valor \u2014 members of both parties say the circumstances are different for the Florida Republican.<\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats are leaning on bureaucratic<\/a> rationalizations before leaping to a fresh wave of expulsions, despite growing alarm around congressional sleaze.<\/p>\n

They say they\u2019re waiting for the conclusion of an active House Ethics investigation into Mills before moving to crack down on him \u2014 a similar approach they\u2019re taking with Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who is set to hear her formal punishment from Ethics next Tuesday after the panel found her guilty of two dozen counts of misconduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a three part test \u2014 Has the member admitted to the conduct in question? Has there been a finding by a court? Or has there been a finding by the Ethics Committee?\u201d Republican Rep. Nick LaLota said. \u201cI don’t think that the Mills case meets any of those three criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there’s expulsion votes, if they’re political, I’m not interested,\u201d said Rep. Brad Schneider, the chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. \u201cIf they are based on facts established by process, I’m gonna follow the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills said in an interview he had told Speaker Mike Johnson he was \u201cunfairly lumped into this\u201d with Swalwell and Gonzales as well as with Cherfilus-McCormick. Unlike Cherfilus-McCormick, he is not facing a federal indictment. And unlike Swalwell and Gonzales, he is not facing charges of sexual misconduct \u2014 something Mills said Johnson has acknowledged.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear where the investigation into Mills stands. Johnson told reporters Tuesday he is \u201clooking into\u201d it. Republicans have quietly worried<\/u><\/a> about the accusations against Mills for some time, but the GOP\u2019s narrow House majority has complicated the prospect of leadership engaging in any sort of accountability.<\/p>\n

What else we\u2019re watching:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2014 FISA lives to face its next test: <\/b>Johnson is figuring out how to move forward with a clean, 18-month extension of a key spy power \u2014 Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\u2014 as several Republicans plan to vote against a procedural step up for consideration Wednesday. Talks are ongoing between GOP leaders, hard-liners and the White House as the program faces an April 20 expiration.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sanders to Force Israel Arms Sales Vote: <\/b>Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to force a vote Wednesday on two resolutions to block nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. arms sales to Israel. There\u2019s renewed energy behind Sanders\u2019 push as Democrats separately try to rein in Trump\u2019s power to continue the Israel-US war in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u2014Vought\u2019s Budget Pitch: <\/b>White House budget chief Russ Vought is set to defend Trump\u2019s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request<\/a> when he appears at House Budget Wednesday. Meanwhile House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers said Tuesday he expects to craft defense policy legislation with a $1.15 trillion budget topline, a move that could<\/a> make the upcoming NDAA more politically palatable to Democrats.<\/p>\n

Riley Rogerson and Hailey Fuchs contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may hear House members calling for his ouster after the resignations of Reps. Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell, but Rep. Cory Mills looks to be on solid footing. Despite months of scrutiny over a range of conduct issues \u2014 including accusations of illicit involvement in federal contracts and stolen valor \u2014 members of both […]<\/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-21364","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\/21364","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=21364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}