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House Republicans voted to send a measure to expel Rep. George Santos back to the Ethics Committee, buying the embattled congressman more time until a probe into his conduct wraps up. 

All Republicans voted to send the matter to Ethics, seven Democrats voted 'present' while the others voted against moving the resolution back to committee. 

Santos himself voted with Republicans to send the matter to Ethics, then vanished, ducking reporters lurking outside the House floor. 

'The House Republicans are now officially the SAVE SANTOS CAUCUS,' Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who introduced the resolution, said. 

Making his case for expelling Santos earlier on Wednesday Garcia said he 'should not have access to our country's most guarded secrets.'

The Ethics panel has been investigating Santos since March - looking into whether he engaged in unlawful activity during his campaign, failed to properly disclose financial information to the House and other areas.  

Meanwhile Santos' communications director Naysa Woomer resigned on Wednesday. Woomer accepted the position a week before the first New York Times story broke in December and a source familiar said she'd been unhappy in the position for a 'long time.' 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he would 'quickly' move to refer the expulsion to Ethics. He could have moved to table the measure, which would require a simple majority, or bring expulsion for a full floor vote, which would need a two-thirds majority, around 70 Republicans and all Democrats. 

'I would like the Ethics Committee to move rapidly on this. I think there's enough information out there now that they can start looking at this,' the GOP leader said, in comments that were a step further from previous times where he refused to call on Santos to resign. 

'I think they can come back to Congress,

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