The House ethics committee will investigate Rep. Jim McDermott, to determine whether he violated standards of conduct when an illegally recorded telephone conversation was leaked to reporters during a committee investigation.Link.
Committee Chairman Joel Hefley, R-Colo., and ranking Democrat Alan Mollohan of West Virginia formed a four-member investigative subcommittee Tuesday to investigate the 1997 incident. McDermott was ranking Democrat on the ethics committee at the time, and the panel was investigating the conduct of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Ethics panel to begin investigation
Isn't it strange how the House Ethics Committee is able to immediately pick up a case against a Democrat even though it didn't really act against Tom DeLay (who actually has ethics problems)?
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