Mr. Speaker, many times in the course of my life as a military police officer and

civilian police officer, I've had occasion to say, calm down, calm down, son.

I've heard your argument.

I feel your passion, I understand your position,

which you're about to go too far.

Just calm down and step back.

This is what I advise my colleagues on both sides of the aisle today.

One of my brothers here, my love and respect these men seated here.

To making a mistake, Mr. Speaker.

One of the gentlemen said,

we should be held to a higher standard.

Talking about the removal of a member of Congress, of the American people to believe that the opinions of congress is a higher

standard than the deliberate vote of the American people.

Is a report from a committee a higher standard than the two-year election cycle as established by our founding fathers

and enshrined in our Constitution. Calm down.

That the Long Island crew is acting in bad faith, just exceedingly bad judgment. And here's why.

Since the beginning of this Congress, there's only two ways you get expelled.

You get convicted of a crime or you participated in the civil war.

Neither apply to George Santos. And so I rise not to defend George Santos, whoever he is, but to defend the very precedent that my colleagues are willing to shatter.

Now let's speak to due process.

Mr. Santos hasn't been convicted of anything, but we haven't even moved to expel the people who have.

Mr. Bowman pled guilty to a misdemeanor for his little fire alarm stunt weeks ago.

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