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House Republicans on Wednesday dodged Democrats’ power play to force a vote on expelling disgraced Rep. George Santos from Congress, sending the resolution instead to the Ethics Committee.
The GOP motion to jettison the resolution to the House Ethics Committee passed in a party-line 220-204 vote.
The privileged resolution for expulsion was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Robert Garcia, California Democrat, forcing GOP leaders to bring the measure to the floor for a vote. The motion to send it to the Ethics panel succeeded in avoiding the vote, which would have put Republicans on the spot to support Mr. Santos to protect their thin majority in the chamber.
The Ethics Committee is already investigating Mr. Santos, a Republican who was revealed to have lied about most of his life story — including having Jewish heritage — to get elected in last year his district on New York’s Long Island.
Mr. Garcia called Mr. McCarthy’s move “a cop-out.
