Directing the Committee on Ethics to investigate whether Members who make false written allegations that fraud occurred in the conduct of the November 2020 Presidential election have violated the Code of Conduct and should be subject to appropriate sanction, including removal from the House.
Latest action · Jan 4, 2021 Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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- IntroducedJan 4, 2021
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
This resolution requires the Committee on Ethics to investigate whether any Member of the House of Representatives violated the rules of the House by making a false written allegation that fraud occurred in the conduct of the November 2020 Presidential election. If the committee determines that such a violation occurred, it shall impose an appropriate sanction, including a recommendation that the Member be removed from the House of Representatives.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2021Introduced in House
- Jan 4, 2021Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Congress.
- Congress
- Congressional oversight
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- House Committee on Ethics
- House of Representatives
- Legislative rules and procedure
- Members of Congress
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2021Introduced in House
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