Matt Gaetz

Voted to sustain both objections to the counting of electoral votes on January 6-7, 2021. In October 2023 he filed the motion that removed Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, the first time the House has ever removed its Speaker. A federal sex-trafficking investigation into him closed in February 2023 without charges; prosecutors had recommended against charging, in part over how central witnesses would be received by a jury. No criminal charge was ever brought against him and he has no conviction. In December 2024 the House Ethics Committee published its own findings: that he had paid women for sex or for drugs on at least twenty occasions, including a seventeen-year-old girl in 2017. That is a congressional ethics report, not a court judgment, and he denies all of it. He resigned his seat within hours of being named the president's choice for Attorney General, having days earlier been elected to a fifth term, withdrew from the nomination eight days later, and did not return to Congress.