George Santos Tells Congress He Will Not Be Resigning

TIME

U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers from both parties moved Tuesday to force a vote this week on the expulsion of Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York who was the subject of a scathing ethics investigation released earlier this month and is facing nearly two dozen charges in federal court.

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00:00 On the matter of expulsion, we are now going down a third attempt for a privilege resolution

00:07 to expel me from the House of Representatives this week.

00:11 Just introduced one earlier today and just earlier this evening we had a second.

00:16 Here's the case in point.

00:18 In history, five members of Congress have been expelled.

00:22 All five had suffered convictions in a court.

00:27 All five had due process.

00:32 This expulsion vote simply undermines and underscores the precedent that we've had

00:38 in this chamber.

00:40 It starts and puts us in a new direction, a dangerous one that sets a very dangerous

00:46 precedent for the future.

00:47 Look, it is not a right to be a member of Congress.

00:51 The media will always remind me of that every time I talk to them.

00:56 But it is a privilege, a privilege that you work hard for and you get elected to Congress

01:02 as a privilege to represent those who have chosen you.

01:06 Madam Speaker, I think we can all agree that due process matters and that we should all

01:11 be very concerned about the way that we are conducting this process.

01:17 I ask that all my colleagues in the House consider and understand what this means for

01:22 the future and to set the record straight and put this in the record, I will not be

01:28 resigning.

01:29 And with that, I yield back the balance of my time.

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