'You're a disgrace': Dramatic scene as House avoids Rep. Cory Mills censure vote [View all]

Source: ABC News

November 19, 2025, 11:15 PM


The House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday to establish an investigative subcommittee to examine allegations that Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills broke campaign finance law and engaged in sexual misconduct and dating violence. The significant step by the panel came ahead of a vote Wednesday night on GOP Rep. Nancy Mace's measure that would have censured Mills and removed him from his House committee assignments.

Ultimately, the House voted 310-103 to refer the censure resolution against Mills to the House Ethics Committee -- preventing the lower chamber from having to weigh in on publicly rebuking the congressman.
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A dramatic scene played out on the House floor when the clerk read Mace's censure resolution out loud on the floor. Mace -- who was standing just a few feet away from Mills -- stared down the Florida congressman. The two lawmakers appeared to get in a back and forth on the floor. "You're a disgrace," Mace said to Mills. The vote tally was all over the map. Democrats were split on the vote and a dozen lawmakers voted present.

Mills brought forward the motion to refer the resolution to the Ethics Committee once the clerk finished reading the Mace censure resolution.

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