119-hres676

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 676 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 676

 Censuring Representative Cory Mills.

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 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

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 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, Metropolitan 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 confirmed that the 
 Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department was investigating 
 Representative Cory Mills for an alleged assault of a 27-year old woman 
 that took place on February 19, 2025, at the residence of Representative 
 Cory Mills;
Whereas the first police report, provided to NBC4 Washington by a source and 
 confirmed by a second source familiar 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 Metropolitan Police Department 
 identified Representative Cory Mills as the significant other of the 
 alleged victim of assault--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 
 escalated 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 reported that the 
 Metropolitan Police Department determined 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 District of Columbia Ed Martin refused to 
 sign the arrest warrant for Representative Cory Mills and instead 
 returned the case to the Metropolitan Police Department for further 
 investigation;
Whereas, on July 14, 2025, a different former romantic partner of Representative 
 Cory Mills, who was apparently in a relationship with Representative 
 Mills from November 2021 to February 2025, reported to authorities in 
 Florida 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 
 concerning the alleged February 2025 physical assault;
Whereas, in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct adopted and 
 transmitted to the Committee on Ethics of the House of Representatives a 
 report indicating that there was substantial reason to believe that 
 Representative Cory Mills may have omitted or misrepresented required 
 information in his financial disclosure statements, accepted excessive 
 contributions to his campaign committee in the form of personal loans 
 and contributions 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 campaign committee in-kind contributions or other 
 contributions 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, including a Department of the Army Form 638 recommending 
 Representative Cory Mills for a Bronze Star which includes a signature 
 from then-Army Brigade Commander Arnold N. Gordon-Bray; however, Retired 
 Brigadier General Bray told the Daytona Beach News-Journal in August 
 2024 that he did not sign a Bronze Star recommendation 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 recommendation 
 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 involved in one of the 
 listed achievements on Representative Cory Mills's Army Form 638 
 recommending him for a Bronze Star denied that Representative Cory Mills 
 provided him any aid and also denied that his injuries were life 
 threatening;
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 legitimate factual disputes raised by individuals he 
 purportedly served with and rescued as ``slander and defamation'' 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.
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