[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 195 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H4794-H4796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING A QUESTION OF THE
PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE
Ms. MACE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX, I rise
to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of
the House.
The form of the resolution is as follows:
Censuring Representative Cory Mills of Florida and removing him from
the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Whereas prior to serving in the House of Representatives,
Representative Cory Mills founded PACEM Solutions International, LLC,
and PACEM Defense, LLC, and acquired AMTEC Corporation, now renamed as
ALS, Inc., companies which engage in security and military contracting
with the United States Government, as well as foreign nations;
Whereas in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct found:
From January 2023 to present, PACEM Defense/ALS has been actively
contracting with the Federal Government, securing close to $1 million
in Federal contracts for munitions and weapons, distributed to prisons
across the country. Specifically, since January 9, 2024, 94 contracts
have been awarded to entities owned by Representative Mills and went on
to conclude that there is substantial reason to believe that
Representative Mills may have entered into, held, or enjoyed contracts
with Federal agencies while he was a Member of Congress in violation of
House rules, standards of conduct, and Federal law;
Whereas in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct noted:
According to its website, PACEM Solutions is currently registered and/
or partnered
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with trusted local firms to work in the following countries: United
States, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, UAE, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia,
and Kuwait. Public reports indicate companies owned by Representative
Mills sought or entered into contracts to sell munitions to foreign
nations while serving as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
and on the Committee on Armed Services;
Whereas entities owned by Representative Mills seeking or entering
into contracts to sell munitions to the United States Government as
well as foreign nations while he serves as a member of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs and Committee on Armed Services represents a clear and
troubling conflict of interest;
Whereas in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct further
adopted and transmitted to the Committee on Ethics of the House of
Representatives a report indicating that there was substantial reason
to believe that Representative Cory Mills may have omitted or
misrepresented required information in his financial disclosure
statements, accepted excessive contributions to his campaign committee
in the form of personal loans and contributions that may not have
derived from Representative Cory Mills' personal funds, and may have
accepted through his campaign committee in-kind contributions or other
contributions not lawfully made;
Whereas individuals who served in the military with Representative
Cory Mills have called into question the veracity of the account of
events which formed the basis of a recommendation that Representative
Cory Mills receive an award of a Bronze Star, bestowed in 2021 or
afterwards, for his service under enemy fire in Iraq in 2003;
Whereas in August 2024, Representative Cory Mills provided The
Daytona Beach News with documents purporting to prove that he earned a
Bronze Star with heroism, including a Department of the Army Form 638
recommending Representative Cory Mills for a Bronze Star, which
includes a signature from then-Army Brigade Commander Arnold N. Gordon-
Bray;
Whereas Retired Army Brigadier General Arnold N. Gordon-Bray has
stated he did not personally write, read, or sign the Department of the
Army Form 638 recommending Representative Cory Mills for a Bronze Star;
Whereas five people who served with Representative Cory Mills,
including two men who were reported as having been personally saved by
Representative Cory Mills at great risk to his own life as a basis for
the recommendation for his Bronze Star in the Department of the Army
Form 638, disputed that Representative Cory Mills was involved in their
rescue or provided lifesaving care;
Whereas one private first class cited as having been involved in one
of the listed achievements on Representative Cory Mills' Army Form 638
recommending him for a Bronze Star denied that Representative Cory
Mills provided him any aid and also denied that his injuries were life-
threatening;
Whereas one sergeant cited as having been involved in one of the
listed achievements on Representative Cory Mills' Army Form 638
recommending him for a Bronze Star called the account a fabrication and
claimed that he was not involved in any claims that Cory Mills makes
about me;
Whereas Representative Cory Mills' employment application to DynCorp
International stated he served in the United States Army 75th Ranger
Regiment and attended United States Army Sniper School, claims which
are not corroborated in his military records;
Whereas on February 19, 2025, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police
Department officers were called to resolve a private matter at
Representative Cory Mills' residence, where officers were called to the
1300 block of Maryland Avenue, SW, around 1:15 p.m. for the report of
an assault;
Whereas police reports obtained by NBC4 Washington confirmed that the
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was investigating
Representative Cory Mills for an alleged assault of a 27-year-old woman
that took place on February 19, 2025, at the residence of
Representative Cory Mills;
Whereas the first police report provided to NBC4 Washington by a
source and confirmed by a second source familiar with the investigation
said that the 27-year-old woman accused her significant other for over
a year of having grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out the door,
and also said that the woman involved showed the officer bruises on her
arm which appeared fresh;
Whereas NBC4 Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police
Department identified Representative Cory Mills as the significant
other of the alleged victim of assault, which alleged victim was a 27-
year-old woman who was not the wife of Representative Cory Mills, and
that the alleged victim let officers hear Subject 1--now identified by
MPD as Mills--instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises.
Eventually, Subject 1 made contact with the police and admitted that
the situation escalated from verbal to physical, but it was severe
enough to create bruising.
Whereas on February 21, 2025, The Washington Post also confirmed two
D.C. police officials said that the alleged victim of assault initially
told a 9/11 operator and police that she had been assaulted and that
officers said she also had what seemed to be visible injuries, and that
while a supervisor initially classified the offense internally as a
family disturbance, police commanders later learned of the incident,
reviewed the reports and body camera footage from the responding
officers, and reclassified the case as a domestic violence assault;
Whereas on February 21, 2025, NBC4 Washington also reported that the
Metropolitan Police Department determined that probable cause to arrest
Representative Cory Mills for misdemeanor assault existed and sent an
arrest warrant for Representative Cory Mills to the United States
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia;
Whereas on July 14, 2025, a different former romantic partner of
Representative Cory Mills, who was apparently in a relationship with
Representative Mills from November 2021 to February 2025, reported to
authorities in Florida that Representative Mills threatened to release
nude images and other intimate videos of her and threatened to harm her
future romantic partners in retaliation for her decision to end a
relationship with Representative Mills after seeing the public reports
described above concerning the alleged February 2025 physical assault;
Whereas on October 14, 2025, the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial
Circuit in Columbia County, Florida, issued a Final Judgment of
Injunction for Protection Against Dating Violence against
Representative Cory Mills, based on a finding that his former romantic
partner was a victim of dating violence or had reasonable cause to
believe she was in imminent danger of becoming a victim of an act of
dating violence; and
Whereas such conduct by Representative Cory Mills affects the dignity
and integrity of the proceedings of the House and brings discredit upon
the House: Now, therefore, be it resolved, that:
(1) Representative Cory Mills be censured;
(2) Representative Cory Mills forthwith present himself in the well
of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure;
(3) Representative Cory Mills be censured with a public reading of
this resolution by the Speaker; and
(4) Representative Cory Mills be, and is hereby, removed from the
Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under rule IX, a resolution offered from the
floor by a Member other than the majority leader or the minority leader
as a question of the privileges of the House has immediate proceedings
only at a time designated by the Chair within 2 legislative days after
the resolution is properly noticed.
Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the
gentlewoman from South Carolina will appear in the Record at this
point.
The Chair will not, at this point, determine whether the resolution
constitutes a question of privilege. That determination will be made at
the time designated for consideration of the resolution.
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