Missourian
Diamond Member
I don't think you can actually force someone to resign from congress, can you? I thought they had to be impeached.And Clinton lied under oath...which is why Vitter wasn't forced to resign.
The left couldn't force Vitter to resign, because they so vigorously defended Clinton's absolute right to break the law...
So we are even.
I mean, if we're all idiots enough to go down this road, we should at least keep score correctly.![]()
The voters like Vitter, regardless and handily re-elected him. Doesn't say much for them.
The House I believe can expel a member guilty of egregious violation of the rules with a two thirds or three fourths, can't remember which, vote to expel him. Or a Congressperson's district can have a recall election to remove him from office. There is no impeachment process for Congress I don't believe.
This would not rise to egregious violation I don't think. But if Pelosi wants him gone, she'll make his life so miserable he'll have to leave. He won't get any camera time. He won't get any committee appointments. He'll be a person non grata without power, influence, or ability to do his job.
You're doing better than I did...I had to look it up.
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This unsettling tidbit was unearthed by a Google search of "Congressman + Impeached"
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, Democrat, Florida's 23rd District.
In 1977, he became a judge of the circuit court of Broward County, Florida.
In 1979, he was appointed by President Carter as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida.
In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case.
In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.
In 1993 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
He presently serves on the following committees:
- Committee on Rules
- United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Vice Chairman)
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Co-Chairman)
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