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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject: Congressional ethics report leaks, revealing names |
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By all means, let's turn over control of 1/6 of our national economy to these bureaucratic imbeciles and crooks...beam me up Scotty...
Quote: | Congressional ethics report leaks, revealing names
By LARRY MARGASAK, AP
Fri Oct 30, 1:45 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Internal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members were exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.
Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct — also known as the Ethics committee — and a panel that refers cases to it shook the chamber as lawmakers were immersed in a series of scheduled votes Thursday.
The panel announced that it was investigating two California Democrats , Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson , even as its embarrassed leaders took pains to explain that several other lawmakers' names should not have been revealed and they may have done nothing wrong.
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The names included three lawmakers previously identified in the inquiry: the chairman of the defense subcommittee, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; and Reps. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and James Moran, D-Va.
The Post said others whose names were in the report included Reps. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.
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