[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 970 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 970

   Censuring Representative Elise Stefanik of the 21st Congressional 
                         District of New York.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2024

 Mr. Goldman of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 
                  referred to the Committee on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Censuring Representative Elise Stefanik of the 21st Congressional 
                         District of New York.

Whereas Representative Elise Stefanik has supported the duly charged and 
        convicted January 6 insurrectionists, who attacked the United States 
        Capitol, threatened violence against Members of Congress, and attempted 
        to stop the certification of the 2020 Presidential election;
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik stood by comments she made 
        on the House Floor in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, 
        including that ``violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable, it is 
        anti-American and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law'';
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 
        insurrectionists despite the fact that over 1,200 of them have been 
        charged with breaking the law during the violent attack on the Capitol;
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik referred to January 6 
        insurrectionists, many of whom are convicted criminals, as ``hostages'';
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 
        insurrectionists by refusing to commit to faithfully executing her 
        constitutional duty to certify the 2024 election;
Whereas even though hundreds of January 6 insurrectionists have pled guilty or 
        been convicted by a jury of serious Federal crimes, including seditious 
        conspiracy, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik referred to the 
        prosecution of January 6 insurrectionists as ``the weaponization of the 
        Federal Government . . . against conservatives'';
Whereas, on December 15, 2023, Representative Stefanik improperly filed a bogus 
        and vindictive ethics complaint against a Federal judge, who has 
        overseen various criminal cases involving January 6 insurrectionists, 
        alleging judicial misconduct based on accurate remarks that ``big lies'' 
        surrounding the 2020 election led to criminal conduct on January 6 and 
        the convictions of hundreds of individuals;
Whereas, on December 15, 2023, instead of condemning the mass assault of over 
        140 police officers during the violent attack on the Capitol, 
        Representative Stefanik posted on X that the same Federal judge's 
        critique of violent January 6 insurrectionists is ``illegal'';
Whereas, on December 5, 2023, Representative Stefanik falsely referred to the 
        independent Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment of former President 
        Trump, based on former President Trump's alleged criminal conduct 
        related to his efforts to unlawfully overturn an election and disrupt 
        the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, as ``attempts to 
        criminalize the First Amendment'';
Whereas, on August 1, 2023, Representative Stefanik falsely referred to Special 
        Counsel Smith's indictment of former President Donald Trump, based on 
        former President Trump's alleged criminal conduct related to his efforts 
        to unlawfully overturn an election, as efforts by President Biden to 
        ``suppress the will of the voters'' and ``meddle with the election using 
        the Department of Justice'';
Whereas, on June 10, 2022, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 
        insurrectionists by referring to the Select Committee to Investigate the 
        January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol of the House of 
        Representatives, which multiple courts determined to be a duly 
        constituted congressional committee tasked with investigating the 
        January 6 insurrection on the United States Capitol and Members of 
        Congress, as a ``witch hunt'';
Whereas, on September 15, 2021, days before a widely reported rally in 
        Washington, DC, supporting the charged January 6 insurrectionists, 
        Representative Stefanik falsely claimed on Facebook that President Biden 
        and fellow Democrats were seeking a ``permanent election insurrection'' 
        by expanding pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants;
Whereas, on January 6, 2021, Representative Stefanik peddled a debunked voter 
        fraud conspiracy, stating that ``more than 140,000 votes came from 
        underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters in Fulton County 
        alone'', a claim Georgia's Republican Secretary of State's office called 
        ``ludicrous''; and
Whereas Representative Stefanik promoted election lies leading up to the January 
        6 insurrection, including in an interview dated December 1, 2020, 
        stating ``concerns'' about the debunked and baseless Dominion Voting 
        Systems conspiracy theory, which helped incite the attack on the 
        Capitol: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) the House of Representatives censures Elise Stefanik, 
        Representative from the 21st Congressional District of New 
        York;
            (2) Representative Elise Stefanik will forthwith present 
        herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the 
        pronouncement of censure; and
            (3) Representative Elise Stefanik will be censured with the 
        public reading of this resolution by the Speaker.
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