Several House Republicans joined Democrats to admonish one of their own after a bombshell investigation found that the lawmaker had engaged in "unprofessional and inappropriate conduct" with his staff.The House voted to censure Rep.Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., as Congress has grappled with multiple incidents of alleged sexual harassment and misconduct by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.The censure vote on Tuesday comes on the heels of a bombshell House Ethics Committee report released last month that recommended Edwards be rebuked for "persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers."BAD BOSSES ON CAPITOL HILL COULD FACE RECKONING UNDER NEW ANONYMOUS STAFFER REVIEW PLATFORMRep.
Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., listens during a House Budget Committee markup meeting on Capitol Hill on May 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Getty Images)The committee is chaired by Edwards' fellow Republican Rep.
Michael Guest, R-Miss., but acts on a bipartisan basis to investigate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.Guest noted on the House floor that the investigation did not find evidence that Edwards engaged in sexual activity, nor did he explicitly proposition the staffers, but that his "conduct toward two young female staffers was inappropriate and violated rules prohibiting sexual harassment," and that it created a hostile work environment."The committee found that Representative Edwards was, at a minimum, blind to the reality and at worst dismissive of the impact his conduct had on the career and well-being of the women on his staff," Guest said.REPLACEMENT GOP NOMINEE NAMED AFTER REP CHUCK EDWARDS DROPS RE-ELECTION BIDAhead of the vote, Edwards told Fox News Digital, "They’ll make their argument, and I’ll make mine," and countered that the House Ethics Committee had abandoned "its own rules" in its handling of his case.That report detailed lavish gifts, trips, and the reading of a poem to one of the staffers, going to a staffer's home to perform cho...