The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics did not formally punish anyone during 2025 — continuing a streak of nearly two decades in which it has not issued a single “disciplinary sanction” despite numerous scandals.
Of 181 alleged Senate rules violations the Senate Ethics Committee reviewed last year, it issued no “private or public letters of admonition” and no case before it resulted in a “disciplinary sanction,” according to a NOTUS review of a new report the committee issued Saturday.
The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed 150 cases “for lack of subject matter jurisdiction” and culled another 10 because complainants “failed to provide sufficient facts as to any material violation of the Senate rules beyond mere allegation or assertion.”