Today’s notice: Take the political implications off the table and suddenly, expelling disgraced members is a great idea! How a building full of wealthy people talks about affordability. Unease over the next steps in the war with Iran. A Catholic scholar on Trump vs. the pope. And: Do not talk about removing the president, Senate Democrats say.
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Kinda says it all: “Sounds like it’s a bit of a mess,” Senate Republican Leader John Thune told NOTUS’ Al Weaver of the news coming from the House on Monday afternoon.
It was two different tales with the same ending. Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned after a flurry of sexual assault and harassment allegations pushed him out of the California gubernatorial primary, left him with no allies in the House and led to an Ethics Committee investigation against him. It was a remarkably swift fall.
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The second tale: Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, who faces allegations stretching back months that dogged him through his primary, yesterday announced his resignation as well. Gonzales’ decision followed a torturous, drawn-out crisis for his conference, which wanted nothing to do with him but also didn’t want him leaving to make its narrow majority even narrower.