CongressionalBadBoys.com | home | Penalties Penalties for Senators and  House Members Historical Listing When a Member of Congress is censured, he or she must stand before the full House while being admonished by the Speaker.   When a Member of Congress is reprimanded, he or she does not have to stand before the  House to receive the medicine. Censured Rep. Charles H. Wilson (1978, 1980) Rep. Sherrod Williams (1836) Rep. John Van Voorhis (1883) Sen. Benjamin Tillman (1902) Sen. Benjamin Tappan (1844) Rep. William Stanbery (1832) Rep. Lovell H. Rousseau (1866) Sen. Timothy Pickering (1811) Sen. John L. McLaurin (1902) Rep. Alexander Long (1864) Rep. John W. Hunter (1867) Rep. Benjamin G. Harris (1864) Rep. John W. Chanler (1866) Rep. Roderick R. Butler (1870) Rep. Thomas L. Blanton (1921)   Censure reported by Committee but no action Sen. Henry S. Foote (1850) Sen. Thomas Hart Benton (1850)   Censure disapproved Rep. George S. Houston (1860)   Censure moved, Adams response tabled Rep. John Quincy Adams (1837, 1842)   Censure rescinded Rep. John Young Brown (1875-76)   Censure severely Rep. Edward D. Holbrooke (1869)   Censure tabled Sen. Isaac Toucey (1854)   Committee severely animadverts on evil of his action, but no Senate censure Sen. James Harlan (1873)   Condemnation Rep. Benjamin F. Whittemore (1870) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (1854) Rep. Joshua R. Giddings (1842) Rep. John T. Deweese (1870) Sen. Hiram Bingham (1929) Rep. Oakes Ames (1873)   Conduct unbecoming a Senator Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (1965)   Denounced as reprehensible Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (1979) Sen. David F. Durenberger (1990)   Disapprobation Rep. Laurence M. Keitt (1856) Rep. Henry A. Edmundson (1856)   Excluded from membership in 90th Congress Rep. Adam Clayton Powell   Expelled Sen. James M. Mason (1861) Sen. Robert M. T. Hunter (1861) Sen. Thomas L. Cllingman (1861) Sen. Thomas Bragg (1861) Sen. James Chestnut, Jr. (1861) Sen. Alfred O. P. Nicholson (1861) Sen. William K. Sebastian (1861) (reversed in 1877) Sen. Charles B. Mitchell (1861) Sen. John Hemphill (1861) Sen. John C. Breckinridge (1861) Sen. Trusten Polk (1862) Sen. Waldo P. Johnson (1862) Sen. Jesse D. Bright (1862) Rep. Michael (Ozzie) Myers (1980) Rep. James Traficant (2002)   Exonerated Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (1924) Sen. Spencer Jarnagin (1846) Sen. Walter T. Colquit (1846) Sen. Powell Clayton (1872) Sen. John M. Clayton (1846)   No action Sen. Henry Wilson (1873) Sen. John A. Logan (1873) Sen. Roscoe Conkling (1873) Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (1947)   Reprimand Rep. Fernando Wood (1868) Rep. Edward R. Roybal (1978) Rep. Austin J. Murphy (1987) Rep. George V. Hansen (1984) Sen. Alan Cranston (1991) Rep. William D. Bynum (1890)   Reproval Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (1976) Rep. Charles G. Rose, III (1988) Rep. Jim Bates (1989)   Resigned Rep. Daniel J. Flood (1980)