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To: RightWhale

What do you mean the senate can remove its own members? is that even constituional?


58 posted on 07/25/2005 1:26:07 PM PDT by SDGOP
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To: SDGOP

They have the power. It would have to be something serious though, such as preaching sedition.


59 posted on 07/25/2005 1:28:15 PM PDT by RightWhale (Substance is essentially the relationship of accidents to itself)
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To: SDGOP

Certainly. Article I, section 5 of the U.S. Constitution provides that each chamber of Congress “shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members” and may “punish its Members for disorderly Behavior.” Over its more than 200-year history, the Senate has developed procedures for judging the qualifications of its members in contested elections and for taking disciplinary action against Senators through such measures as formal censure or actual expulsion from the Senate.


61 posted on 07/25/2005 1:28:34 PM PDT by TheBigB (PIU CAMPANACCIO! (Italian for "more cowbell!") :))
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