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Santos, in an 18-minute news conference outside Capitol Hill on Thursday morning, reiterated he will not resign as a vote to expel him is expected on Friday.
"This is not how, at least, I thought this last year would go," Santos said. "It's an unfortunate circumstance that I have to sit here and watch American people waste, Congress waste the American people's time over and over again on something that is the power of the people not the power of Congress, which is to elect and remove members of Congress."
Santos pleaded not guilty to 23 federal charges, which would make him the first member of Congress to get expelled without being convicted of a crime or as a Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War.
Seeking a level playing field for all, Santos announced he'll seek an expulsion vote for fellow New York congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-Westchester), who pleaded guilty to setting off a fire alarm at the Capitol last month.