Censuring Representative Cory Mills.

[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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