Representative-elect George Santos had an eventful first day in Congress.
After arriving on Capitol Hill, the embattled Long Island Republican repeatedly dodged reporters as he, along with more than 80 new members of the House of Representatives, waited to be sworn into Congress.
Later in the afternoon, Santos was loudly booed by Democrats when he cast a vote for California Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be House speaker, according to CBS News.
The freshman congressman-elect was also photographed sitting alone in the House chamber and yawning while McCarthy tried and failed, through multiple rounds of voting, to get the 218 votes necessary to secure the speakership.
* He claimed to have gotten an undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from Baruch College, but later acknowledged to The Times that he had never graduated.
* In a previous campaign for Congress, Santos claimed he had attended Horace Mann School, a prestigious preparatory school in the Bronx. But a spokesman for Horace Mann told CNN the school has "no evidence" that Santos went there.
* He claimed his "grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII." He also called himself "a proud American Jew," but later told The New York Post that he "never claimed to be Jewish," but rather "Jew-ish."
The congressman-elect is facing several local, state, and federal investigations focusing on whether he violated the law during the course of his two congressional campaigns. Brazilian prosecutors also said Monday that they intend to reopen a 2008 fraud case against Santos and will ask the US Justice Department to formally notify him of the charges.
Santos was swarmed with questions from the press when he got to Capitol Hill Tuesday but stayed mum, sometimes even turning around and walking in the opposite direction to avoid answering questions.