周二，约45名共和党众议员乔治·桑托斯的选民从纽约第三国会选区前往国会山，要求国会投票驱逐他。
乔迪·卡斯说:“我们在这里是因为当我们在长岛讲话时，议长麦卡锡显然听不到我们的声音。”。卡斯是NY-03关注公民的协调员，这是一个无党派团体，希望看到桑托斯下台。
“麦卡锡议长，如果共和党如此关心选举的完整性，那么对那个骗进众议院并对选民犯下美国历史上最大欺诈的骗子做点什么怎么样?”她说。
纽约州民主党众议员丹尼尔·古德曼和里奇·托雷斯也加入了投票向众议院道德委员会投诉调查程序开始的地方。
麦卡锡星期二对记者说，委员会正在“处理”这项投诉，并暗示如果委员会发现有不当行为，众议院将采取行动。
2023年2月7日，在国会大厦举行的新闻发布会上，人们举着横幅，呼吁众议员丹·戈德曼、众议员里奇·托雷斯和一群来自纽约第三国会区的众议员乔治·桑托斯的选民辞职。
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“乔治·桑托斯，我给他信用，他是国会历史上最伟大的小说家，”托雷斯说。
“但是是时候结束乔治·桑托斯的悲剧和喜剧了。你不应该再被剥夺你应得的代表权，”他在人群的欢呼声中继续说道。
“几周前，国会议员托雷斯和我向众议院道德委员会提出了投诉，这是我们作为本届国会的一部分所做的第一件事，因为我们看到一个人给国会大厦神圣的大厅带来了令人难以置信和前所未有的欺诈、欺骗和谎言，”高盛说。
来自桑多斯地区的教师、阿富汗难民巴泰·艾哈迈德说，她致力于帮助其他难民。虽然她以前曾与桑托斯的前任、前众议员汤姆·索兹(Tom Suozzi)的选民服务团队合作，但她对桑托斯的工作能力表示怀疑。
艾哈迈德说:“选民们每天都依靠他们的国会议员来帮助他们解决问题，有些问题和我的问题一样不寻常，但即使是日常事务，如报税或申请政府服务等。
“这不是共和党或民主党的问题，”她说。“这取决于纽约03的居民是否应该在国会中有一个真正的代表。现在，我们没有一个可以依赖的合法代表。”
桑托斯在1月下旬发推文说，他“正在完成我报名参加的工作。”
长岛选民随后向众议院道德委员会主席迈克尔·盖斯特(Michael Guest)、议长麦卡锡(McCarthy)和桑托斯(Santos)的办公室递交了要求桑托斯辞职的请愿书。
当这群人到达桑托斯的办公室时，一名工作人员出来接受请愿书，但四面楚歌的国会议员无处可寻，引发了“乔治在哪里?”
“今天，我们发现他是一只鸡，因为他害怕他的选民，”卡斯在离开桑托斯的办公室后告诉记者。
Some of George Santos' constituents come to Capitol Hill to demand his expulsion
About 45 constituents of Republican Rep. George Santos traveled from New York's 3rd Congressional District to Capitol Hill Tuesday to demand Congress vote to expel him.
"We are here because Speaker McCarthy apparently cannot hear us when we speak from Long Island," said Jody Kass. Kass is the coordinator of Concerned Citizens of NY-03, a nonpartisan group who want to see Santos ousted from office.
"Speaker McCarthy, if the GOP is so concerned about election integrity, how about doing something about the con man who lied his way into the House and perpetrated the greatest fraud on the electorate in American history?" she said.
The constituents were also joined by Reps. Daniel Goldman and Ritchie Torres, the New York Democrats who recentlyfiled a complaint with the House Ethics Committeewhere the investigative process has started.
McCarthy told reporters Tuesday the committee is "moving through" the complaint and suggested the House would take action if the committee found wrongdoing.
"George Santos, I give him credit, he's the greatest fiction writer in the history of Congress," Torres said.
"But the time has come to end the tragedy and the comedy that is George Santos. You should no longer be deprived of the representation that you deserve," he continued to cheers from the crowd.
"Congressman Torres and I filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee a couple of weeks ago as one of the first things that we did as part of this Congress because we saw the unbelievable and unprecedented amounts of fraud, deception, and lies that a single person has brought to what should be the hallowed halls of the Capitol," Goldman said.
Taiba Ahmad, a teacher from Santos' district and an Afghan refugee, said she works to help other refugees. While she previously worked with the constituent service team for former Rep. Tom Suozzi, Santos' predecessor, she cast doubt on the work Santos will be able to do.
"Constituents depend on their member of Congress daily to assist them with issues, some as unusual as mine, but even for everyday things like filing our taxes or applying for government services," Ahmad said.
"This is not a Republican or Democrat issue," she said. "It comes down to whether the residents of New York-03 deserve to have a real representation in Congress. Right now, we do not have a legitimate representation that we can depend on."
Santos tweeted in late January that he was "getting the job I signed up for done."
The Long Island constituents then dropped off petitions calling for Santos' resignation to the offices of Rep. Michael Guest, chair of the House Ethics Committee, Speaker McCarthy and Santos.
When the group arrived at Santos' office, a staffer came out to accept the petition, but the embattled congressman was nowhere to be found, prompting chants of "Where's George?"
"Today, we found out that he is a chicken because he is afraid of his constituents," Kass told reporters after leaving Santos' office.
