“Unprecedented”? JFC. There once was a time, back before the GQP lost its damned mind, when the parties policed their own. Most recently, prior to this instance, Steve King, from Iowa’s 4th, was stripped of all committee assignments based upon his flagrant racism, not by a vote in the house, but by the Republican Party Leadership. The Democrats booted Jim Traficant, a Democrat, (more-or-less), from Ohio, themselves.