Democrat Rep. Will Try to Trigger Vote on Releasing House Ethics Report on Gaetz

Democrat Rep. Will Try to Trigger Vote on Releasing House Ethics Report on Gaetz


Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) says he will soon attempt to trigger a vote before all House members on whether or not to release the Ethics Committee’s report into President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

After the House Ethics Committee disagreed on whether or not to release the report on Wednesday, Casten said he would use a privileged resolution to mandate a floor vote on its release. The vote would be mandatory within two days of Casten introducing the bill.

“Given reports that the Ethics Committee will not release the Gaetz report today, I will shortly introduce a privileged resolution to require a vote by the full House of Representatives on its release,” he wrote in a post on X.

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