WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committeepublished a listMonday of all its publicly disclosed sexual misconduct investigations into members stretching back to 1976.
The 28 investigations spanned from former Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) — both of whom resigned from the House last week — to the late Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio).
In total, fourteen were Democrats and 12 were Republicans. The late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) was twice investigated for pursuing a “sexual relationship with a staffer in 2014 and again in 2020.
Hastingsdiedin 2021, and was succeeded by Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.), who was recentlyfaulted for 25 ethics violationsamid a probe of her purportedly pilfering $5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
A sex misconduct investigation from 1982 to 1983 involving House pages also concluded with the censuring of Reps. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) and Dan Crane (R-Ill.), though neither were expelled.
Others like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who was probed for “[s]exual misconduct with minor” and “solicitation of prostitution,” resigned before findings were publicly released.
The Ethics Committee no longer has jurisdiction over the Swalwell or Gonzales investigations after both left the House, though Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) remains under a probe for “[s]exual misconduct and/or dating violence.”
An investigative subcommittee looking into the allegations was set up in November 2025, but President Trump still endorsed the Florida Republican in February.
“The fact Congress keeps protecting him says everything about who we are as an institution,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)saidMonday, threatening an expulsion vote for Mills.
At least half of the probes occurred just over the past decade, during which the ethics panel said it “has adopted a more aggressive and robust approach to allegations of sexual misconduct.”
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