H.Res. 1197

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1197 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1197

Providing for the expulsion of Representative Nancy Mace from the 
United States House of Representatives.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 20, 2026

Mr. Mills submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ethics

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RESOLUTION

Providing for the expulsion of Representative Nancy Mace from the 
United States House of Representatives.

Whereas on November 17, 2025, Patrick Bryant filed a restraining order against 
Representative Mace in Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, alleging 
her ongoing public harassment, profanity-laced threats against his 
attorneys, and dissemination of baseless claims via social media 
constitute irreparable harm, amid a protracted legal feud involving 
defamation suits, property disputes, and Representative Mace's 
accusations of Bryant's abuse;
Whereas on November 26, 2025, Judge Donald B. Hocker issued a gag order 
preventing Representative Mace from publishing, posting, sharing, or 
creating any public content related to her ongoing lawsuits, after she 
disrupted the legal process by airing her personal grievances on her 
official social media and the House Floor;
Whereas in a May 2025 deposition, Wesley Donehue, a former political strategist 
for Representative Nancy Mace, testified under oath that Representative 
Mace asked him to blackmail her then-fiance, Patrick Bryant, by 
threatening to publicly release explicit photographs allegedly found on 
Bryant's phone to secure full ownership of jointly held properties in 
Washington, D.C., and South Carolina's Isle of Palms, describing the 
request as an illegal act that prompted him to sever professional ties 
with her;
Whereas Donehue further testified that Representative Mace explicitly claimed to 
possess evidence that Bryant had sexually assaulted and non-consensually 
filmed multiple other women, yet Representative Mace knowingly chose to 
vacation with Bryant on a 2023 Caribbean cruise rather than immediately 
report these alleged crimes to law enforcement or take any action to 
protect the identified victims, prioritizing her leisure over the 
potential sexual exploitation and victimization of other females, 
conduct that raises grave questions about the credibility, consistency, 
and moral seriousness of her subsequent public accusations of sexual 
misconduct against Bryant and others;
Whereas on October 31, 2025, an incident report from the Charleston County 
Aviation Authority Police Department detailed Representative Mace's 
profane berating of law enforcement officers and Transportation Security 
Administration (TSA) agents at Charleston International Airport, 
including repeated use of derogatory language such as calling officers 
``fucking incompetent'' and demanding preferential treatment as a 
``fucking U.S. representative,'' behavior that shocked witnesses and 
prompted TSA supervisors to file internal reports;
Whereas James A. Woods, Charleston Regional Aviation Authority Chief of Police, 
stated in a November 12 investigation report that Mace is responsible 
for turning a ``minor miscommunication'' into ``a spectacle'' through 
``continued failure to follow established procedures at the 
checkpoint'', highlighting her routine and flagrant disregard for 
airport procedures, entitlement, and mistreatment of staff attempting to 
accommodate her requests that leave law enforcement and airport 
employees ``visibly upset'', ``frustrated'', and ``downtrodden'';
Whereas Representative Mace gained admission to The Citadel Military College of 
South Carolina in 1996 through direct nepotism--her father, J. Emory 
Mace, was the school's commandant of cadets from 1997 to 2005 during her 
enrollment--yet upon graduation in 1999 she refused to accept a 
commission in the United States Armed Forces, declining to serve the 
country she now routinely lectures on military readiness and veteran 
issues, thereby disqualifying herself from any moral standing to 
criticize or belittle the sacrifices of those who truly serve in 
uniform;
Whereas in October 2021, Representative Mace publicly claimed she was the victim 
of vandalism when the words ``racist'' and ``transphobe'' were spray-
painted on her South Carolina home, only for subsequent police reports 
and neighbor testimony to reveal that Representative Mace herself was 
the only individual captured on security footage holding a can of spray 
paint near the property at the time of the incident, leading law 
enforcement and multiple former staffers to conclude the act was staged 
for political sympathy and media attention;
Whereas Representative Mace has repeatedly abused Capitol Police resources for 
personal vendettas and political theater, including in December 2023 
when her incoming chief of staff, Lorie Khatod, summoned officers to her 
office to confront and intimidate her recently fired chief of staff, Dan 
Hanlon--over trivial disputes such as the removal of a popcorn machine--
creating a ``Be on the Lookout'' alert across Capitol grounds that left 
staff feeling unsafe and terrorized; and in December 2024, when 
Representative Mace prompted the arrest of foster youth advocate James 
McIntyre on assault charges for what eyewitnesses described as a 
standard handshake during a child welfare event, after which she staged 
a public spectacle by appearing in Congress wearing a wrist brace and 
arm sling to exaggerate minor or nonexistent injuries, tying the 
incident to her anti-transgender advocacy and eroding trust in law 
enforcement while diverting resources from genuine threats;
Whereas in 2023-2024, Representative Mace misused her Members' Representational 
Allowance (MRA)--a taxpayer-funded resource strictly limited to official 
duties under House Rule XXIII--by seeking over $23,000 in reimbursements 
for lodging on her co-owned $1.6 million Washington, D.C., townhouse, 
including prohibited mortgage payments and inflated claims exceeding 
actual expenses by $8,900-$12,000, as detailed in a June 2024 ethics 
complaint filed by a constituent and under review by the House Ethics 
Committee, with former staff confirming she directed them to maximize 
daily reimbursements regardless of legitimacy, effectively treating the 
MRA as a personal piggy bank for self-enrichment at taxpayer expense;
Whereas on October 4, 2023, during an official Fox Business interview conducted 
in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda regarding her vote to oust then-Speaker 
Kevin McCarthy, Representative Mace brazenly solicited campaign 
donations from viewers by directing them to her campaign website--
repeating the request three times on air and sharing the clip on social 
media with renewed donation pleas--in flagrant violation of federal law 
(18 U.S.C. Sec. 603) and House Rule XXIII, which prohibit the 
solicitation of contributions in any room or building occupied in the 
discharge of official duties, prompting an ethics complaint from the 
watchdog group Campaign for Accountability to the Office of 
Congressional Ethics, though no sanctions were imposed despite 
Representative Mace's admission that the act broke House rules;
Whereas Representative Mace has repeatedly flouted South Carolina's ethics laws 
by failing to file required campaign finance disclosures for her 
lingering State House account from 2020 to 2022, amassing approximately 
$17,000 in fines from the South Carolina House Ethics Committee--making 
her one of the State's largest ethics debtors--before the committee 
unanimously reduced the penalty to $1,200 in December 2023 at her 
request, citing inability to pay, yet as of November 19, 2025, the 
reduced fine remains unpaid and outstanding despite Representative 
Mace's unsubstantiated claims of mailing a check in June 2024, 
demonstrating a persistent pattern of evasion and disregard for public 
accountability;
Whereas multiple former congressional staffers, speaking both on and off the 
record in 2024-2025, have described Representative Mace's office as one 
of the most toxic workplaces on Capitol Hill, with documented instances 
of screaming at employees, public humiliation, erratic firings and 
rehires, demands for 24/7 availability, and retaliation against staff 
who raised concerns about ethics or legality--resulting in near-total 
turnover of her senior staff multiple times in a single Congress and 
repeated referrals to the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights for 
hostile-work-environment complaints;
Whereas Donehue testified in the same deposition that Representative Mace 
routinely directed her congressional staff to create and operate 
anonymous ``burner accounts'' on X (formerly Twitter) and other 
platforms to monitor criticism, program bots for artificial promotion, 
and post false or misleading defenses of her image, misusing official 
resources and taxpayer-funded time for personal gain in violation of 
House Rule XXIII on ethical conduct and the Hatch Act;
Whereas such conduct, whether fully adjudicated or not, reflects a pattern of 
ethical lapses, abuse of public trust, workplace toxicity, staged 
incidents for political gain, and disorderly behavior that undermines 
the dignity of the House of Representatives and erodes confidence in its 
Members, particularly as Representative Mace campaigns for Governor of 
South Carolina in 2026;
Whereas such conduct, beginning before Representative Mace was first elected to 
Congress, spans both her official and unofficial duties, as well as her 
personal and professional life, demonstrates a clear pattern of ethical 
lapses, campaign finance violations, abuse of public trust, workplace 
toxicity, staged incidents for political gain, entitlement unbecoming of 
a Representative of her constituents, aggression against members of law 
enforcement and South Carolinians she claims to serve, and disorderly 
behavior that undermines the dignity of the House of Representatives and 
erodes confidence in its Members, particularly as Representative Mace 
campaigns for Governor of South Carolina in 2026; and
Whereas the House has a solemn duty under Article I, Section 5 of the 
Constitution to punish its Members for disorderly behavior and enforce 
standards of decorum: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That pursuant to Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 of the 
Constitution of the United States, Representative Nancy Mace, be, and 
she hereby is, expelled from the United States House of 
Representatives.
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