The U.S. House Ethics Committee has convened to determine punishment for Democratic Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida, after investigators found she committed 25 violations of House rules and ethical standards, including breaches of campaign finance law. The congresswoman, who also faces separate federal criminal charges of stealing roughly $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds allegedly routed through her family's healthcare business to finance her 2022 campaign, has pleaded not guilty to both the criminal charges and the ethics findings. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he expects the full House to move to expel her, though expulsion — which has only occurred six times in U.S. history — requires a two-thirds majority vote, a historically high bar.