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Tony Gonzales resigned his House seat after admitting to an affair with a staffer and facing an ethics investigation.
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10 stories · 83–89 · updated Sep 25, 2026
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Representatives Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Tony Gonzales (R-TX) resigned from Congress on Tuesday following separate scandals involving sexual misconduct and ethics probes, narrowly avoiding scheduled expulsion votes.
Speaker of the House
Representative leading expulsion effort
mentioned regarding ethics probe
House Minority Leader
Representative leading expulsion effort
mentioned regarding ethics probe
Outlets across the spectrum are reporting on Gonzales's resignation with uniform negativity, though they emphasize different consequences of the scandal. While center-left sources like NPR and MS NOW focus on the House Ethics Committee probe and the tragic suicide of the staffer involved, right-leaning outlets like Fox News highlight the subsequent push by GOP colleagues to strip Gonzales of his taxpayer-funded pension.
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