Congressional Discipline and Ethics

After a week that featured three forced censure votes (and five total threats), lawmakers are discussing a bipartisan proposal to raise the House censure threshold from a simple majority to 60% to prevent a single member from triggering a censure. Speaker Mike Johnson says he is open to rule changes and members are debating requiring support from a "small group," though there is no consensus yet, as critics call current censure practices retaliatory, attention-seeking and potentially exploitable in close elections.