Does censure come with any punishment? No. A censure doesn't result in the removal of a member from any committees or hamper his or her authority as a lawmaker in any way. What is the history of censure in Congress? Twenty-six members have been censured in the history of the House a...
Still, there are those who see a bit of cynicism in Sinema’s announcement and speculate that she made the maneuver to preserve herself from being ousted during a primary challenge. In Sinema’s own words, “I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics b...
and of using them rather than being useful to them. This is what too many Republican politicians have chosen to do in the wake of the election. They have decided to feign anger at a problem that cannot be solved because it does not exist, and this cannot help but make them less capable...
I have laid myself open (I know it) in this treatise, turned mine inside outward: I shall be censured, I doubt not; for, to say truth with Erasmus, nihil morosius hominum judiciis, there is naught so peevish as men's judgments; yet this is some comfort, ut palata, sic judicia,...
If Congress hoped the specter of being censured by the powerless “true owners” of the firm would serve as some sort of shaming mechanism that might impose reason upon the compensation committees of Fortune 500 boards, those hopes have been dashed by reality: Fully 96 percent of such votes ...