Before Teves, the only time House came close to expelling a lawmaker was in 1990

The ethics committee of the House of Representatives under the Cory Aquino administration recommended expulsion against a Nueva Ecija lawmaker arrested for gun smuggling, but his colleagues later reduced the penalty to suspension

of politician Arnie Teves at the House of Representatives stands out because no one else in the history of the lower chamber had been unseated in such a manner.

Congressional records provided by House Secretary General Reginald Velasco to Rappler back in May noted that there was one other time in 1990 when the ethics committee also recommended the penalty of expulsion against an errant lawmaker.

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