Rep. Nancy Mace, left, Rep. Cory Mills. Reuters/Getty Images

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace announced Wednesday she would seek to censure her Republican colleague Rep. Cory Mills and kick him off his House committees, pointing to several controversies surrounding the Florida congressman.

Once considered rare in the House chamber, censure has been used more frequently in recent years and amounts to a significant rebuke of a member of Congress.

Mace’s resolution would also remove Mills from the House Armed Services and House Foreign Affairs committees.

The congresswoman’s attempt to reprimand Mills comes after House Democrats on Tuesday night abandoned a separate censure measure against the Florida Republican after a GOP effort to censure Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett failed.

Mills said in

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