Inquiry To Look At House, Not Foley

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Ethics Panel to Focus on Handling Of Early Warnings
The House ethics committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into Congress's handling of information about a Florida lawmaker and teenage pages yesterday, as Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) vowed to keep his job, saying, "I haven't done anything wrong."

The ethics panel approved nearly four dozen subpoenas for documents and testimony from House members, officers and aides. Its leaders said they plan to complete the inquiry in a matter of weeks, but not necessarily before the Nov. 7 congressional elections.

"Our investigation will go wherever the evidence leads us," Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) told reporters at the Capitol. The committee is evenly divided between the two parties, and Hastings and Rep. Howard L. Berman (Calif.), the top Democrat, promised to conduct an impartial investigation into the House's handling of warnings about the conduct of disgraced former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.).

The committee's inquiry will proceed in tandem with investigations by the FBI and Florida officials. Unlike those agencies, the ethics committee has no jurisdiction over Foley, who resigned last week as ABC News was publishing sexually graphic electronic messages between him and teenage former congressional pages. Hastings said his committee will focus on "conduct of House members, officers and staff related to information concerning improper conduct involving members and current and former pages."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500626.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. somehow i just don't think this is going to turn out well for the thugs.

it just seems that they were struggling too hard to keep the Democrats noses out of their affairs, and now it's all blown wide open.

[Toots]

5. When you have a Republican "Ethics Committee" investigating Republicans

you expect them to find anything wrong? This will be delayed and delayed until it disappears into the forgotten past and elections will go on without any results.. Same as the investigation into how we got into Iraq. It will go on and on and on and on and no results will ever be released. It is their strategy. They know Americans have the attention span of a cockroach..

[Patsy Stone]

2. That's right

The DoJ and the FBI will be talking to Mr. Foley now that he's no longer a House member, he just Joe Perverted Citizen. The Ethics Committee will look into the House members currently serving.

Don't worry. This is not gonna be good for anyone with an (R) after their name -- no way, no how.

[luckyleftyme2]

3. ITS A JOKE

This is a joke,just a stall till election is over than it will fade.Typical tatic of gop=G=gone,0=out,P=to play!

[remfan]

4. Giving them all an excuse to say 'no comment'

because as we all know, you cannot comment on 'an ongoing investigation'. I surprised they didn't subpoena every GOP member and all their staffers.