IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 970 

Censuring Representative Elise Stefanik of the 21st Congressional District 

of New York. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 17, 2024 

Mr. GOLDMAN of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Ethics 

RESOLUTION 

Censuring Representative Elise Stefanik of the 21st 

Congressional District of New York. 

Whereas Representative Elise Stefanik has supported the 

duly charged and convicted January 6 insurrectionists, 

who attacked the United States Capitol, threatened violence against Members of Congress, and attempted to 

stop the certification of the 2020 Presidential election; 

Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik stood 

by comments she made on the House Floor in the wake 

of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, including that 

‘‘violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable, it is 

anti-American and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law’’; 

Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 insurrectionists despite the fact that 


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over 1,200 of them have been charged with breaking the 

law during the violent attack on the Capitol; 

Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik referred to January 6 insurrectionists, many of whom are 

convicted criminals, as ‘‘hostages’’; 

Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 insurrectionists by refusing to commit 

to faithfully executing her constitutional duty to certify 

the 2024 election; 

Whereas even though hundreds of January 6 insurrectionists 

have pled guilty or been convicted by a jury of serious 

Federal crimes, including seditious conspiracy, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik referred to the prosecution of January 6 insurrectionists as ‘‘the 

weaponization of the Federal Government . . . against 

conservatives’’; 

Whereas, on December 15, 2023, Representative Stefanik improperly filed a bogus and vindictive ethics complaint 

against a Federal judge, who has overseen various criminal cases involving January 6 insurrectionists, alleging 

judicial misconduct based on accurate remarks that ‘‘big 

lies’’ surrounding the 2020 election led to criminal conduct on January 6 and the convictions of hundreds of individuals; 

Whereas, on December 15, 2023, instead of condemning the 

mass assault of over 140 police officers during the violent 

attack on the Capitol, Representative Stefanik posted on 

X that the same Federal judge’s critique of violent January 6 insurrectionists is ‘‘illegal’’; 

Whereas, on December 5, 2023, Representative Stefanik 

falsely referred to the independent Special Counsel Jack 


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Smith’s indictment of former President Trump, based on 

former President Trump’s alleged criminal conduct related to his efforts to unlawfully overturn an election and 

disrupt the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, as 

‘‘attempts to criminalize the First Amendment’’; 

Whereas, on August 1, 2023, Representative Stefanik falsely 

referred to Special Counsel Smith’s indictment of former 

President Donald Trump, based on former President 

Trump’s alleged criminal conduct related to his efforts to 

unlawfully overturn an election, as efforts by President 

Biden to ‘‘suppress the will of the voters’’ and ‘‘meddle 

with the election using the Department of Justice’’; 

Whereas, on June 10, 2022, Representative Stefanik supported January 6 insurrectionists by referring to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on 

the United States Capitol of the House of Representatives, which multiple courts determined to be a duly constituted congressional committee tasked with investigating the January 6 insurrection on the United States 

Capitol and Members of Congress, as a ‘‘witch hunt’’; 

Whereas, on September 15, 2021, days before a widely reported rally in Washington, DC, supporting the charged 

January 6 insurrectionists, Representative Stefanik falsely claimed on Facebook that President Biden and fellow 

Democrats were seeking a ‘‘permanent election insurrection’’ by expanding pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants; 

Whereas, on January 6, 2021, Representative Stefanik peddled a debunked voter fraud conspiracy, stating that 

‘‘more than 140,000 votes came from underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters in Fulton 


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County alone’’, a claim Georgia’s Republican Secretary of 

State’s office called ‘‘ludicrous’’; and 

Whereas Representative Stefanik promoted election lies leading up to the January 6 insurrection, including in an 

interview dated December 1, 2020, stating ‘‘concerns’’ 

about the debunked and baseless Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy theory, which helped incite the attack on 

the Capitol: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That— 

2 (1) the House of Representatives censures Elise 

3 Stefanik, Representative from the 21st Congres4 sional District of New York; 

5 (2) Representative Elise Stefanik will forthwith 

6 present herself in the well of the House of Rep7 resentatives for the pronouncement of censure; and 

8 (3) Representative Elise Stefanik will be cen9 sured with the public reading of this resolution by 

10 the Speaker. 

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