Yvette Clark Introduces Censure Resolution For Cory Mills

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During remarks on the House floor, Rep. Yvette Clark (D-NY) introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL)

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00:00Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Clause 2A1 of Rule 9, I rise to give notice of my intention

00:07to raise a question of the privileges of the House in the form of a resolution as as follows.

00:16Whereas Representative Corey Mills has on several occasions conducted himself in a manner that

00:23reflects discredit upon the House of Representatives, whereas on February 19th of 2025, Washington,

00:31D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to resolve a private matter at

00:38Representative Corey Mills' residence where officers were called to the 1300th block of

00:45Maryland Avenue Southwest around 1.15 p.m. for the report of an assault.

00:53Whereas the police reports obtained by NBC for Washington confirmed that the Washington,

01:00D.C., Metropolitan Police Department was investigating Representative Corey Mills for an alleged assault

01:07of a 27-year-old woman that took place on February 19th, 2025 at the residence of Representative

01:16Corey Mills.

01:17And whereas the first police report provided to NBC for Washington by a source and confirmed

01:24by a second source familiar with the investigation said that the 27-year-old woman accused her significant

01:32other for over a year of having grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out the door.

01:39And also said the woman involved showed the officers bruises on her arm, which appeared fresh.

01:50And whereas NBC for Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police Department identified

01:56Representative Corey Mills as the significant other of the alleged victim of assault, which alleged

02:04victim was a 27-year-old woman who was not the wife of Representative Corey Mills, and that the alleged victim

02:13let officers hear Subject 1, now identified by MPD as Mills, instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises.

02:23Eventually, Subject 1 made contact with police and admitted that the situation escalated from verbal to physical,

02:33but it was severe enough to create bruising.

02:38Whereas on February 21st, 2025, the Washington Post also confirmed, two D.C. police officers, officials,

02:46said that the alleged victim of assault initially told a 911 operator and police that she had been assaulted

02:55and that officers said she also had what seemed to be visible injuries

03:02and that while a supervisor initially classified the offense internally as a family disturbance,

03:09police commanders later learned of the incident, reviewed the reports and body cam footage from the responding officers

03:19and classified the case as domestic violence assault.

03:23And whereas on February 21st, 2025, NBC for Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police Department

03:32determined that probable cause to arrest Representative Corey Mills

03:37for misdemeanor assault existed and sent an arrest warrant for Representative Corey Mills

03:44to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

03:50However, then-acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin refused to sign the arrest warrant

03:59for Representative Corey Mills and instead returned the case to the Metropolitan Police Department

04:06for further investigation.

04:08Whereas on July 14th, 2025, a different former romantic partner of Representative Corey Mills,

04:17who was apparently in a relationship with Representative Mills from November 2021 to February of 2025,

04:26reported to authorities in Florida that Representative Mills threatened to release nude images

04:33and other intimate videos of her and threatened to harm her future romantic partners in retaliation

04:40for her decision to end a relationship with Representative Mills after seeing the public records described above

04:48concerning the alleged February 2025 physical assault.

04:53Whereas in August of 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct adopted and transmitted to the Committee on Ethics

05:04of the House of Representatives a report indicating that there was substantial reason to believe

05:10that Representative Corey Mills may have omitted or misrepresented required information

05:18in his financial disclosure statements, accepted excessive contributions to his campaign committee in the form of personal loans

05:29and contributions may not have been, may, excuse me, may not have derived from Representative Corey Mills' personal funds,

05:37entered into, held, or enjoyed contracts with federal agencies while he was a member of Congress,

05:45and may have accepted through his campaign committee in-kind contributions or other contributions not lawfully made.

05:54Whereas individuals who served with Representative Corey Mills have called into question the veracity of the accounts of events

06:03which formed the basis of a recommendation that Representative Corey Mills receive an award of a Bronze Star bestowed in 2021

06:13for his service under enemy fire in Iraq in 2023, excuse me, in 2003.

06:21Whereas in August of 2024, Representative Corey Mills provided the Daytona Beach News with documents

06:29purporting to prove that he earned a Bronze Star with heroism,

06:35including a Department of Army Form 638 recommending Representative Corey Mills for a Bronze Star,

06:44which includes a signature from then Army Brigade Commander Arnold N. Gordon Bray.

06:53However, Brigadier General, retired Brigadier General Bray,

06:58told the Daytona Beach News Journal in August of 2024 that he did not sign a Bronze Star recommendation

07:07for Representative Corey Mills.

07:10And whereas five people who served with Representative Corey Mills,

07:14including two men who were reported as having been personally saved by Representative Corey Mills

07:21at great risk to his own life as a basis for the recommendation for his Bronze Star

07:27in the Department of the Army Form 638,

07:31disputed that Representative Corey Mills was involved in their rescue or providing life-saving care.

07:40Whereas one private first class cited as having been involved in one of the listed achievements

07:46on Representative Corey Mills' Army Form 638 on Representative Corey Mills' Army Form 638

07:50recommending him for a Bronze Star denied that Representative Corey Mills provided him any aid

07:56and also denied his injuries were life-threatening.

08:02Whereas one sergeant cited as having been involved in one of the listed achievements

08:07on Representative Corey Mills' Army Form 638 recommending him for a Bronze Star

08:13called into account, called the account, excuse me, a fabrication

08:19and claimed that he was not involved in any claims that Corey Mills makes about me.

08:27And whereas despite the numerous available contradictions of the accounts

08:33forming the basis of the recommendation for his Bronze Star,

08:37Representative Corey Mills described the legitimate factual disputes

08:42raised by individuals he purportedly served with and rescued as, quote,

08:48slander and defamation, end quote, in a statement to the Daytona Beach News.

08:55Now, therefore, be it resolved that Representative Corey Mills be censured.

09:03Representative Corey Mills forthwith presents himself in the well

09:08of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure

09:12and whereas Representative Corey Mills be censured with the public reading

09:17of the resolution by the Speaker.

09:20Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of the House

09:25and offer the resolution that was previously noticed.

09:30Under Rule 9, a resolution offered from the floor by a member,

09:34other than the majority leader or the minority leader,

09:37as a question of the privileges of the House,

09:40has immediate precedence only at a time designated by the chair

09:43within two legislative days after the resolution is properly noticed.

09:48Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed

09:51by the General Leader from New York will appear in the record at this point.

09:55The chair will not, at this point, determine whether the resolution

09:59constitutes a question of privilege.

10:01That determination will be made at the time designated

10:04for consideration of the resolution.

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