“Some House lawmakers want their colleagues punished, and it’s driving everyone else a little mad,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Members demanded a series of votes to censure or otherwise denounce colleagues this week, and one threatened an expulsion, all taking advantage of a House rule that allows any single lawmaker to get a vote on a privileged resolution. With the House back in town this month after 54 days out of session, interpersonal dramas and long-running feuds burst into the open, sometimes turning members against their own parties, and leadership was largely powerless to stop it.”

“Even by the standards of the raucous House of Representatives, the past week was an exceptionally caustic one, with lawmakers from both parties lobbing or threatening no fewer than a half-dozen censures and official scoldings at one another,” the New York Times reports.

“The purported offenses ran the gamut. One Democrat plotted to handpick his successor, while another texted with the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A Republican was accused by his colleagues of contracting abuses, faking his military honors and assaulting a woman at his apartment. A third Democrat was indicted on charges that she stole Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.”

“It was a vivid illustration of how official House rebukes, once exceedingly rare and mostly a matter of consensus for the most egregious conduct or illegal acts by a sitting member of Congress, have become commonplace in recent years.”

President Trump once again called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) a “traitor” on Truth Social after her announcement and said she dropped out because of “PLUMMETING Poll Numbers” and his threat to support a primary challenger against her, CNN reports.

Said Trump: “For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD. Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!”

“The lower chamber returned Monday for its first full week of work since mid-September. And what a week it was,” Punchbowl News reports.

Axios: “The House of Representatives had, by any reasonable standard, an absolutely insane week — marked by censure votes, indictments and a literal fire at the U.S. Capitol complex — as lawmakers returned from their seven-week absence.”

“To cap it off, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of the chamber’s biggest firebrands, announced Friday night she’ll resign from Congress after her public split from President Trump.”

“To members in both parties, the chaos was simply the crescendo to a years-long period of shame for the lower chamber.”

“Earlier this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received an unlikely request: A former colleague who once excoriated her brand of left-wing politics wanted her assistance,” the Washington Post reports.

“The New York Democrat was happy to help.”

“She sent out a fall fundraising email calling centrist candidate Abigail Spanberger ‘a brawler for the working class’ — putting her stamp of approval on a former congresswoman who once fumed after a disappointing 2020 election season that she didn’t want Democrats to “use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again.” Their mutual embrace — unthinkable just a few years ago — shows the influence the democratic socialist has amassed in a party that once saw her more as hostile actor than helpful supporter.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Friday that she will be resigning from office in January.

Said Greene: “I ran for Congress in 2020 and have fought every single day believing that Make America Great Again meant America First. However, with almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined.”

“Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will refuse to answer questions in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Epstein and the Justice Department’s handling of the case,” Politico reports.

“Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that.”

— Speaker Mike Johnson, talking to reporters, on President Trump’s call to execute six Democratic lawmakers.

Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, announced she will retire next year after 16 terms, citing the need for a new generation of Democratic leaders, the New York Times reports.

“Following President Joe Biden’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of individuals sought to make an unannounced trip to the Taliban-run country to extract Americans who were stranded inside. One of those people involved in the unofficial mission was Rep. Cory Mills, an Army veteran and a then-congressional candidate,” NOTUS reports.

“En route to Afghanistan, Mills and the rest of the group he was with stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia. One night while awaiting to continue their rescue mission, Mills was caught with sex workers.”

Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump’s declaration that some congressional Democrats engaged in “sedition” after the president suggested those Democrats should be executed Thursday, Politico reports.

Said Johnson: “That is a factual statement.”

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said he will force a vote on expelling Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) from Congress after she was indicted by a federal grand jury, Axios reports.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told a group of random people to “get off” their “fat ass” after they posted a TikTok video flipping off President Trump, Mediaite reports.

Indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) will step aside from her leadership position on a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee “while the matter is ongoing,” Politico reports.

“Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett watched GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologize on national television for her role in perpetuating divisive rhetoric and immediately instructed her staff to see if the Georgia Republican wanted to work with her on a bill addressing lawmaker safety,” CNN reports.

“Crockett had reached out to Greene on the issue shortly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, without response. But now, with Greene’s public rebuke of President Donald Trump and her own party, Crockett sees even more potential in teaming up.”

“A week before he voted to significantly cut Medicaid, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) dumped six figures’ worth of stock in a quartet of companies that manage nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees in the country,” NBC News reports.

There have been five threats of censuring lawmakers in the House of Representatives this week alone, NBC News reports.

Axios: House members want to make it harder to censure each other.