IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 676 
Censuring Representative Cory Mills. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 
Ms. CLARKE of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ethics 
RESOLUTION 
Censuring Representative Cory Mills. 
Whereas Representative Cory Mills has on several occasions 
conducted himself in a manner that reflects discredit 
upon the House of Representatives; 
Whereas, on February 19, 2025, Washington, DC, Metropoli-
tan Police Department officers were called to resolve a 
private matter at Representative Cory Mills’ residence, 
where officers were called to the 1300 block of Maryland 
Avenue, Southwest around 1:15 p.m. for the report of an 
assault; 
Whereas police reports obtained by NBC4 Washington con-
firmed that the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police De-
partment was investigating Representative Cory Mills for 
an alleged assault of a 27-year old woman that took place 
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on February 19, 2025, at the residence of Representative 
Cory Mills; 
Whereas the first police report, provided to NBC4 Wash-
ington by a source and confirmed by a second source fa-
miliar with the investigation, said that the 27-year-old 
woman accused her significant other for over a year of 
having grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out of 
the door, and also said that the woman involved showed 
the officer ‘‘bruises on her arm which appeared fresh’’; 
Whereas NBC4 Washington also reported that the Metropoli-
tan Police Department identified Representative Cory 
Mills as the significant other of the alleged victim of as-
sault—which alleged victim was a 27-year-old woman 
who was not the wife of Representative Cory Mills—and 
that the alleged victim ‘‘let officers hear Subject 1 [now 
identified by MPD as Mills] instruct her to lie about the 
origin of her bruises . . . Eventually, Subject 1 made 
contact with police and admitted that the situation esca-
lated from verbal to physical, but it was severe enough 
to create bruising’’; 
Whereas, on February 21, 2025, the Washington post also 
confirmed two DC police officials said that the alleged 
victim of assault initially told a 911 operator and police 
that she had been assaulted and that officers said she 
also had what seemed to be visible injuries, and that 
while a supervisor initially classified the offense internally 
as a family disturbance, police commanders later learned 
of the incident, reviewed the reports and body camera 
footage from the responding officers, and reclassified the 
case as a domestic violence assault; 
Whereas, on February 21, 2025, NBC4 Washington also re-
ported that the Metropolitan Police Department deter-
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mined that probable cause to arrest Representative Cory 
Mills for misdemeanor assault existed and sent an arrest 
warrant for Representative Cory Mills to the United 
States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia; 
however, then-Acting United States Attorney for the Dis-
trict of Columbia Ed Martin refused to sign the arrest 
warrant for Representative Cory Mills and instead re-
turned the case to the Metropolitan Police Department 
for further investigation; 
Whereas, on July 14, 2025, a different former romantic part-
ner of Representative Cory Mills, who was apparently in 
a relationship with Representative Mills from November 
2021 to February 2025, reported to authorities in Flor-
ida that Representative Mills threatened to release nude 
images and other intimate videos of her and threatened 
to harm her future romantic partners in retaliation for 
her decision to end a relationship with Representative 
Mills after seeing the public reports described above con-
cerning the alleged February 2025 physical assault; 
Whereas, in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Con-
duct adopted and transmitted to the Committee on Eth-
ics of the House of Representatives a report indicating 
that there was substantial reason to believe that Rep-
resentative Cory Mills may have omitted or misrepre-
sented required information in his financial disclosure 
statements, accepted excessive contributions to his cam-
paign committee in the form of personal loans and con-
tributions that may not have derived from Representative 
Cory Mills’ personal funds, entered into, held, or enjoyed 
contracts with federal agencies while he was a Member 
of Congress, and may have accepted through his cam-
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paign committee in-kind contributions or other contribu-
tions not lawfully made; 
Whereas individuals who served with Representative Cory 
Mills have called into question the veracity of the account 
of events which formed the basis of a recommendation 
that Representative Cory Mills receive an award of a 
Bronze Star, bestowed in 2021, for his service under 
enemy fire in Iraq in 2003; 
Whereas, in August 2024, Representative Cory Mills provided 
the Daytona Beach News with documents purporting to 
prove that he earned a Bronze Star with heroism, includ-
ing a Department of the Army Form 638 recommending 
Representative Cory Mills for a Bronze Star which in-
cludes a signature from then-Army Brigade Commander 
Arnold N. Gordon-Bray; however, Retired Brigadier Gen-
eral Bray told the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Au-
gust 2024 that he did not sign a Bronze Star rec-
ommendation for Representative Cory Mills; 
Whereas five people who served with Representative Cory 
Mills, including two men who were reported as having 
been personally saved by Representative Cory Mills at 
great risk to his own life as a basis for the recommenda-
tion for his Bronze Star in the Department of the Army 
Form 638, disputed that Representative Cory Mills was 
involved in their rescue or provided life-saving care; 
Whereas one Private First Class cited as having been in-
volved in one of the listed achievements on Representa-
tive Cory Mills’s Army Form 638 recommending him for 
a Bronze Star denied that Representative Cory Mills pro-
vided him any aid and also denied that his injuries were 
life threatening; 
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Whereas one Sergeant cited as having been involved in one 
of the listed achievements on Representative Cory Mills’s 
Army Form 638 recommending him for a Bronze Star 
called the account a ‘‘fabrication’’ and claimed that he 
‘‘was not involved in any claims that Cory Mills makes 
about me’’; and 
Whereas, despite the numerous available contradictions of the 
accounts forming the basis of the recommendation for his 
Bronze Star, Representative Cory Mills described the le-
gitimate factual disputes raised by individuals he pur-
portedly served with and rescued as ‘‘slander and defa-
mation’’ in a statement to the Daytona Beach News 
Journal: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) Representative Cory Mills be censured; 
(2) Representative Cory Mills forthwith present 
himself in the well of the House of Representatives 
for the pronouncement of censure; and 
(3) Representative Cory Mills be censured with 
the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker. 
Æ 
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