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Members of Congress expelled from the House - The Associated Press
Associated Press ^ | 7-24-02

Posted on 07/24/2002 12:46:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Missouri; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: congress; expelled; house; traficant
Is it me or is there a clear trend?
1 posted on 07/24/2002 12:46:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You left out part of the article at the top. It says:

With BC-Traficant Bjt

What does this mean?
2 posted on 07/24/2002 12:51:05 PM PDT by jgrubbs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, all of them but Ozzie were Rebs, and he took money from fake A-Rebs.
3 posted on 07/24/2002 12:52:18 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, I see a trend, as well, but it's a little hard to D-cipher...
4 posted on 07/24/2002 12:52:28 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How will Alcee Hastings vote?..hmmmmm...
5 posted on 07/24/2002 12:57:17 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What happened to Adam Clayton Powell? I recall that he was facing expulsion at one point, but I can't remember how it eventually played out.
6 posted on 07/24/2002 1:16:47 PM PDT by blau993
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To: ken5050
I don't know how Hastings will vote but his history is interesting. He was acquitted of "soliciting" a bribe but impeached for "taking" a bribe. From the book Grand Inquests by William H. Rehnquist, 1992, page 120.

Interesting note. Of the 19 impeachments covered by the Rehnquist book, ALL of them were for personal behavior and NOT from what they did in their job. The gambit the Democrats used with Clinton, as in "it's his personal behavior and you can't impeach him for that", is exactly how all 19 were impeached. None of them were impeached for their behavior doing their jobs. And, that's how Clinton got away with it all.

Once the media and much of the public bought into the "it's only about sex" excuse and you can't throw him out for personal reasons versus what he did on the job, the Democrats won the high ground defeating Clinton's removal from office.
7 posted on 07/24/2002 1:21:22 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: blau993
From Profiles in Courage
http://www.mlkfdn.org/profiles_0701.htm

Powell was under attack from both long-time enemies and committee members, who expressed dismay with his erratic management of the committee budget, numerous trips abroad at public expense, absenteeism and self-imposed exile from his district where his refusal to pay a slander judgment made him subject to arrest.

On January 9, 1967, the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship. Furthermore, the full House refused to seat him until completion of an investigation by the Judiciary Committee. The following month, the committee recommended that Powell be censured, fined, and deprived of seniority, but on March 1 the House rejected these proposals and voted 307 to 116, to exclude him from the Ninetieth Congress. Powell won a special election on April 11, 1967, to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, but did not take his seat. He was reelected to a twelfth term in the regular November contest, but the House voted to deny him his seniority. Powell declined to take his seat when the Ninety-first Congress convened in January 1969.

In June 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that the House had acted unconstitutionally when it excluded him from the Ninetieth Congress, and Powell finally returned to his seat albeit without his twenty-two years' seniority. He unsuccessfully sought re-nomination in the June 1970 primary and failed to get on the ballot as an independent. Powell retired as minister at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1971 and died in Miami on April 4, 1972.

8 posted on 07/24/2002 1:26:35 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
George Magazine had a longer list, but basically the same thing.

CONGRESSIONAL EXPLUSIONS

William Blout (No Party-TN) Conspired against the government, 1797.
Thomas Blagg (D-NC) Supported Confederacy, 1860
John C. Breckenridge (D-KY) Supported Confederacy, 1860
Henry C. Burnett (D-KY) Supported Confederacy, 1861
James Chesnut Jr. (D-SC) Supported Confederacy, 1861
John Bullock Clark (D-MO) Supported Confederacy, 1861
Thomas Clingman (D-NC) Supported Confederacy, 1861
John Hemphill (States Rights-TX) Supported Confederacy, 1861
Robert Hunter (D-VA) Supported Confederacy, 1861
James Mason (D-VA) Supported Confederacy, 1861
Charles Burton Mitchel (D-AR) Supported Confederacy, 1861
Alfred Nicholson (D-TN) Supported Confederacy, 1861
John W. Reid (D-MO) Supported Confederacy, 1861
William Sebastian (D-AR) Supported Confederacy, 1861*
Louis T. Wigfall (D-TX) Supported Confederacy, 1862
Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) Supported Confederacy, treason, 1862
Waldo Porter Johnson (D-MO) Supported Confederacy, 1862
Trusten Polk (D-MO) Supported Confederacy, 1862
Ozzie Meyes (D-PA) Abscam conviction, 1980

* The Senate posthumously reversed Sebastian's explusion and repatriated his heirs.

9 posted on 07/24/2002 1:49:01 PM PDT by BillyBoy
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To: BillyBoy
I found the following on William Blount

William Blount

William Blount
1749-1800

North Carolinian William Blount fought in the Revolutionary War, and remained in public service for the rest of his career. A delegate in both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, he was described by a fellow delegate as "no speaker, nor does he possess any of those talents that make Men shine; - he is plain, honest, and sincere."

After actively seeking the position of Governor of the western territory south of the Ohio River, Blount was awarded the position by President George Washington in 1790; the position of Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern Department automatically accompanied the position of Governor. By 1796, the southern territories' population had grown to the point that a new state -- Tennessee -- requested admission to the union, and Blount served as the first United States Senator from the state (1796). However, he was eventually expelled from the Senate for plotting with the British to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana, in the hope of gaining new land for Tennessee

10 posted on 07/24/2002 2:15:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Morgan in Denver
From Profiles in Courage

http://www.mlkfdn.org/profiles_0701.htm

And the Martin Luther King Foundation calls that a "Profile in Courage"??????

And we wonder why these folks idolize Jesse and Al???

11 posted on 07/24/2002 2:26:36 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: BillyBoy
Hmmm, something's verrrrrrry interesting here. Notice the party affiliation. It takes a village - to ruin a country.
12 posted on 07/24/2002 3:44:28 PM PDT by Rollee
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To: Morgan in Denver
Thanks Morgan.

I had just graduated from college in 1967, and with draft, law school, marriage and impending fatherhood facing me all at once, the perils of Mr. Powell did not completely register. It is good to review the history.

Blau993

13 posted on 07/24/2002 7:57:48 PM PDT by blau993
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To: BillyBoy
I didn't realize that the democrat party had so many representatives from the south that supported the Confederacy. Interesting. I wonder if anyone took their seats after expulsion?
14 posted on 07/24/2002 8:05:49 PM PDT by harpo11
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmmmm? All democrats!! My, my, and what is that they keep saying about the GOP being corrupt??
15 posted on 07/24/2002 8:28:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: blau993
What happened to Adam Clayton Powell? I recall that he was facing expulsion at one point, but I can't remember how it eventually played out.

SCOTUS ruled in Powell's favor: Adam Clayton Powell

(I should put a ***BARF ALERT*** on this source, but it answers your question)

16 posted on 07/24/2002 8:35:35 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Morgan in Denver
This is what started the tour to bringing Rep. Trafficant down.

Subject: .The Bankruptcy of The United States United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner's report that will lead to our demise. It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States."

Image: United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303

If he hadn't tried to educate America he would be doing just fine like the rest of the cowards in the Congress and Senate. The truth is a forbidden topic in DC.

17 posted on 07/25/2002 1:05:14 AM PDT by B4Ranch
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To: B4Ranch
I thoroughly enjoyed Traficant's floor speeches. Most colorful and usually entertaining. He will be missed.

The issue of our abandoning the gold standard is interesting and Jude Waneski has some interesting thoughts on it as well. Me? I have not looked into it that much since I see little, if any, public interest in changing back. Especially now, when there are so many other important events and issues needing attention.

Although your suggestion could be an underlying cause, I believe Paul Craig Roberts, in his column today at http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020725-26558704.htm is more on point as to anything else I've seen as to what is inherently wrong with congress today.
18 posted on 07/25/2002 11:44:56 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Morgan in Denver
I feel the lack of character in people today was an INTENTIONAL move by the Socialist Democrats. Removing religion from peoples lives, adding sex wherever possible into society, adding diversity into work and schools are just some of these intional movements.
19 posted on 07/25/2002 1:21:43 PM PDT by B4Ranch
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