Expulsion from Congress

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Expulsion from Congress is extremely rare. Nevertheless, NY Congressman George Santos was expelled on December 1, 2023. So how did that happen? Today on Civics 101 we are guided by Carlos Algara, who lays out the history of expulsion in both chambers, the process, the Ethics Committee, censure, and how Congress fills an empty seat after somebody is expelled. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nick. What are you doing?
0:14.0	Square breathing.
0:15.0	Square breathing.
0:16.0	Square breathing.
0:17.0	Square breathing.
0:18.0	It's a technique I heard the Navy SEALs do.
0:20.0	Sort of calm down a little.
0:22.0	Keep their head straight.
0:24.0	You breathe in four seconds, hold for, out for, hold for, etc.
0:28.7	Okay, like a square.
0:30.1	Like a square.
0:30.9	Yeah, like a square.
0:31.8	Now why are we talking about square breathing?
0:34.7	Uh, so usually, Hannah, when I start an episode, I find some relative news clips and I put
0:42.2	some bomp of music underneath it and then we say I'm
0:44.8	N capaicha, I'm McCarthy, but the sheer fire hose amount of sound bites for this one?
0:52.1	This Burberry Scarbrough talks treatment and
0:54.7	what's in those sound bites? It's pretty bonkers.
0:59.6	I was to fund raiser for his dying service dog back in 2016 only to pocket the money himself.
1:05.0	I actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship.
1:08.6	Like kind of all over the place like maybe it's performance art level bonkers.
1:13.0	When asked if the baby was his, George Santos responded,
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