A Michigan panel has recommended expulsion for two lawmakers who admitted to misconduct in covering up their extramarital affair.
A House disciplinary committee voted Thursday that tea party Republicans Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat should be expelled.
Just three legislators have been expelled in Michigan history.
The recommendation now goes to the full House where a two-thirds vote is needed for them to be removed from office.
Courser and Gamrat have apologized and had asked for censure, allowing them to keep their jobs in restricted roles.
Courser sent a phony email claiming he was caught with a male prostitute. It was an effort to make the affair less believable if it were exposed by an anonymous blackmailer.
Gamrat says she discussed the plot with Courser but didn't know the email's content in advance.