Cory Mills

The House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that it has authorized more than 20 subpoenas and contacted dozens of witnesses for its investigation into Florida GOP Rep. Cory Mills over various allegations of dating violence and violating campaign finance laws.

House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and ranking member Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., said in a statement that the investigatory subcommittee created for the probe into Mills “expects to receive additional relevant documents and testimony in the coming weeks,” The Hill reported.

While public statements and updates on investigations from the committee are unusual, the panel has been more open in recent months amid sexual misconduct allegations against Congress members.

Mills has faced calls to be expelled or resign after former Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, stepped down last month amid separate accusations of sexual misconduct and ethics violations. Fellow Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has led the push to expel Mills, as she filed an expulsion resolution on April 20.

“If someone can give me a good reason, I’d be more than happy to listen to it. But until we can do that, absolutely not, no — I don’t plan to resign,” Mills said last month. “We’re going to seek re-election.”

“Anything they’ve asked of us, we’ve complied,” he said regarding the House Ethics Committee. “Why not let the investigating body and the Ethics Committee to be able to do their jobs? And so we comply. We’re very happy to see what the outcome is.”

Mills has denied wrongdoing.

The Florida congressman is being investigated in part over allegations of dating violence. Last fall, one ex-girlfriend was granted a restraining order against Mills for harassment, and another woman he was dating at the same time initially told police of a domestic assault in February 2025 before recanting.

Mills was neither arrested nor charged with a crime, but the allegations resurfaced as Swalwell and Gonzales resigned from Congress. Last month, the Washington Post reported on body camera footage from the February 2025 incident, in which the woman Mills dated had shown a police officer bruises on her arms and marks on her face.

The House Ethics Committee confirmed Monday that it is investigating that incident.

“Although the [Metropolitan Police Department] determined not to charge Representative Mills for assault following this incident, a decision not to bring charges is not a finding of innocence or ‘no wrongdoing,’” the committee said.

The panel noted that it is also investigating “the circumstances relating to a widely-reported October 2025 court-issued injunction against Representative Mills, which limited his engagement over social media and other forms of contact with a woman, including preventing Representative Mills from going within 500 feet of the woman’s residence or place of employment.”

“The Committee takes these and the other allegations very seriously and will continue to review them in a manner that ensures due process and prioritizes witness confidentiality and safety. The Committee will publicly release its findings in accordance with the procedural rules of the Committee and the House,” Guest and DeSaulnier said in the statement.