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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat can a Dem house do to Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins?
They've both been charged with crimes. Can they be expelled if found guilty?
Wounded Bear
(58,627 posts)they have the right to discipline members. It's not unheard of, though not really common.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I'd like to know also.
unblock
(52,181 posts)rare in general, and very unlikely in the current climate.
RockRaven
(14,951 posts)The House and Senate each make their own rules, and the exact mechanism is dictated by those rules; the other chamber has no input/role in the matter; but for both chambers the threshold for expulsion is a 2/3 vote of that chamber.
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)The Republicans will cross the isle to get rid of them since they can't do their duties in prison.
I have suggested they could impeach them. But the Senate would likely say it's not their purview since impeachment has happened before of a Senator and they refused to do it.