Nancy Mace moves to force vote on censuring Cory Mills
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution to censure fellow Republican Rep. Cory Mills (Fla.) and remove him from committees Wednesday, listing allegations of harassment, assault, stolen valor and improper contracts by his arms sales company.
The move comes as Republican tensions rise over failed efforts to censure Democrats that, in turn, have repeatedly protected Mills from retaliatory censure.
Mace made the measure a privileged resolution, which forces GOP leadership to act on the matter within two legislative days, meaning a vote would be expected by the end of the week.
Mills has been at the center of numerous personal controversies this year. Most recently, a Florida county judge granted a restraining order an ex-girlfriend requested against Mills. The woman had accused him of harassing and threatening to release intimate photos of her after their breakup earlier this year.
Mills denied some of that woman’s accusations, and many of the others listed in Mace’s resolution.
Democrats have unveiled three different efforts to censure Mills in recent months, but each was a retaliatory threat in response to a Republican attempt to censure a Democrat. The censures of those Democrats failed, so Democrats declined to force votes on censuring Mills.
Republican anger over that dynamic boiled over after the chamber Tuesday night rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett (Virgin Islands) for texting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
Three Republicans voted with all Democrats against the measure, and three other Republicans voted present, leading the measure to fail 209-214-3.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) yelled at her fellow Republicans on the House floor after the failed vote, also confronting Mills .
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) insinuated a shady deal had led to the Plaskett resolution failing in order to protect Mills.
“I was wondering if the Speaker of the House of Representatives can explain why leadership on both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are cutting back-end deals to cover up public corruption in the House of Representatives for both Republican and Democrat members of Congress,” Luna said on the House floor, in a parliamentary inquiry that was ruled to not be proper.
Mills in a statement said he had expected that censure to succeed against him Tuesday, noting he voted for censuring Plaskett.
“And let me be perfectly clear, there was no backroom deal, no negotiation, and no quid pro quo of any kind that would’ve forced the Democrats to stand down on that vote against me. Anyone pushing that narrative is just wrong,” Mills said.
Another censure of Mills that never moved forward came after the House in September rejected an effort brought by Mace to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over comments she reposted about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Mills, who was facing a retaliatory censure had the Omar reprimand succeeded, was the last-minute deciding vote to sink the Omar censure. Mills denied his vote against the censure was a means to protect himself.
A furious Mace then went on the offense against Mills, highlighting many other controversies about him on social media — including accusations of stolen valor, which he has denied.
Mace’s censure resolution references reporting in The Daytona Beach News-Journal questioning how and why he was awarded a Bronze Star, with two service members “disputing that Mills was involved in their rescue or provided live-saving care.” Mace did her own investigation into the matter, and on Wednesday released a transcript of a call she says she had with retired Brig. Gen. Arnold N. Gordon-Bray, who said he did not authorize the paperwork for Mills’s Bronze Star.
Mace also details an incident from February in which a woman, originally identified as a significant other to Mills, had called police to a luxury building in the Wharf neighborhood of D.C. over a domestic disturbance.
The woman later recanted her allegations , and Mills firmly denied there was a physical altercation. News4 also reported an arrest warrant was sent to the U.S. attorney’s office — then led by interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, an appointee of President Trump — but was not signed and was sent back to the department for further investigation. No charges were brought against Mills, and police later told Mills the case was closed .
And finally, Mace’s resolution notes Mills is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee after the Office of Congressional Conduct found that his companies “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.”
A similar retaliatory censure of Mills was also abandoned in September after Republicans voted to table a resolution to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who faces charges resulting from a clash with officials at an immigrant detention center.
Updated at 2:12 p.m. EST
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