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 vio-
lence 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 ex-
tent of the law’’; 
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik sup-
ported 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 re-
ferred to January 6 insurrectionists, many of whom are 
convicted criminals, as ‘‘hostages’’; 
Whereas, on January 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik sup-
ported 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 Janu-
ary 7, 2024, Representative Stefanik referred to the pros-
ecution 
of 
January 
insurrectionists 
as 
‘‘the 
weaponization of the Federal Government . . . against 
conservatives’’; 
Whereas, on December 15, 2023, Representative Stefanik im-
properly filed a bogus and vindictive ethics complaint 
against a Federal judge, who has overseen various crimi-
nal cases involving January 6 insurrectionists, alleging 
judicial misconduct based on accurate remarks that ‘‘big 
lies’’ surrounding the 2020 election led to criminal con-
duct on January 6 and the convictions of hundreds of in-
dividuals; 
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 Janu-
ary 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 re-
lated 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 sup-
ported January 6 insurrectionists by referring to the Se-
lect Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on 
the United States Capitol of the House of Representa-
tives, which multiple courts determined to be a duly con-
stituted congressional committee tasked with inves-
tigating 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 re-
ported rally in Washington, DC, supporting the charged 
January 6 insurrectionists, Representative Stefanik false-
ly claimed on Facebook that President Biden and fellow 
Democrats were seeking a ‘‘permanent election insurrec-
tion’’ by expanding pathways to citizenship for undocu-
mented immigrants; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2021, Representative Stefanik ped-
dled a debunked voter fraud conspiracy, stating that 
‘‘more than 140,000 votes came from underage, de-
ceased, 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 lead-
ing up to the January 6 insurrection, including in an 
interview dated December 1, 2020, stating ‘‘concerns’’ 
about the debunked and baseless Dominion Voting Sys-
tems conspiracy theory, which helped incite the attack on 
the Capitol: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives censures Elise 
Stefanik, Representative from the 21st Congres-
sional District of New York; 
(2) Representative Elise Stefanik will forthwith 
present herself in the well of the House of Rep-
resentatives for the pronouncement of censure; and 
(3) Representative Elise Stefanik will be cen-
sured with the public reading of this resolution by 
the Speaker. 
Æ 
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