{"id":38444,"date":"2023-12-04T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38444"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:36:10","slug":"george-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/george-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is George Santos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>Background on US Congress<\/li>\n<li>About George Santos<\/li>\n<li>Why Was George Santos Expelled?<\/li>\n<li>George Santos\u2019 Argument<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>George Santos, a member of the United States Congress, has been expelled from the House, over criminal corruption charges and accusations of misspending campaign money.<\/li>\n<li>The US Lawmakers backed the expulsion resolution 311 to 114, with 206 Democrats and 105 Republicans voting in favour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Background on US Congress<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate.<\/li>\n<li>Members:\n<ul>\n<li>The Congress has 535 members: 100 senators and 435 representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Term:\n<ul>\n<li>Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year.<\/li>\n<li>Senators however, serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that only about 1\/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Representation of States:\n<ul>\n<li>Each state sends two Senators to represent their state in the U.S. Senate.<\/li>\n<li>However, in the House of Representatives, a state\u2019s representation is based on its population.<\/li>\n<li>For example, smaller states like Vermont and Delaware have one representative while large states like California have 53 representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About George Santos<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>George Santos, 35, was elected from New York\u2019s 3rd congressional district in the mid-term elections in 2022.<\/li>\n<li>A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to Congress in 2022 after running unsuccessfully in 2020.\n<ul>\n<li>George Santos was a member of the House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He was expelled from Congress on December 1, 2023 which made Santos the sixth person to be expelled in the history of the House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why Was George Santos Expelled?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fake Identity:\n<ul>\n<li>The New York Times found out that he did not graduate from the college where he claimed to have studied.<\/li>\n<li>Nor did he work in Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, or start an animal rescue charity as he claimed.<\/li>\n<li>His repeated claims of having descended from Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust were also found to be untrue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Criminal Allegations:\n<ul>\n<li>George Santos also faces multiple allegations of criminality.<\/li>\n<li>These include pocketing funds ostensibly raised for animal welfare to skimming card information from ATMs.<\/li>\n<li>In May, 2023, he pled guilty and agreed to pay fines in a remote court hearing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in a cheque-book fraud case.<\/li>\n<li>In May, the Department of Justice slapped Santos with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds and lying on federal disclosure forms, and (briefly) took him into custody<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ethics Committee Report:\n<ul>\n<li>An ethics committee, set up by the Congress, found that Santos \u201csought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The pattern of personal use of campaign money was so extensive, that the report claimed that Santos\u2019 election \u201chas called into question the integrity of the House.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>George Santos\u2019 Argument<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He said that he would file an ethics complaint against three fellow Republicans from New York.<\/li>\n<li>However, he offered no proof of wrongdoing against any of the three.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the best definition of Bicameral?<\/h3>\n<p>Bicameral literally means &#8220;two chambers,&#8221; and in practice refers to a government structure involving two houses, or two legislative bodies, that are separate in deliberation from one another.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is the veto power of the American president?<\/h3>\n<p>In the United States, the president can use the veto power to prevent a bill passed by the Congress from becoming law. Congress can override the veto by a two-thirds vote of both chambers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-house-expels-new-york-rep-george-santos\/article67595687.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>U.S. House expels New York Representative George Santos<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/george-santos-expelled-house-of-representatives-9051597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Congress has voted out Representative George Santos from the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}