During what should have been a week of crucial messaging and legislating, Congress spent the week instead focused on dramas on and off Capitol Hill.
And those sagas have left lawmakers with a lengthy to-do list to tackle next week before they scramble to leave D.C. ahead of their next district and state work periods.
Two House members facing allegations of sexual misconduct — Republican Tony Gonzales of Texas and Democrat Eric Swalwell of California — resigned Monday after Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M., announced plans to introduce resolutions to expel the two if they did not leave Congress voluntarily. More than two dozen members from both sides of the aisle called for them to give up their seats.
