Ethics probe of Craig seems stalled - Baseball hearing going full bore ahead

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080213/NEWS07/802130424/1009/NEWS07

February 13, 2008

By ERIKA BOLSTAD

MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- With a year remaining in Larry Craig's Senate term, there is little indication that the Senate Ethics Committee is doing much about the Idaho Republican's controversial arrest last summer.

Craig, who said he would leave at the end of his term, is under investigation by the ethics committee in connection with his arrest in the men's room of the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. He was cited on a disorderly conduct charge in a sex sting.

No one on the Senate committee will say how far along any investigation is or whether it is expected to yield findings.

"Preliminary inquiries are always conducted behind closed doors," said Natalie Ravitz, a spokeswoman for the cochair of the committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

"There's a lot of latitude in terms of what the committee can do during that time period. There's no set timeline on preliminary inquiries. They can last a few days, and they can last many, many months."

Senate Republican leaders asked the committee to investigate Craig's conduct a day after news broke of his arrest.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Craig who?

:banghead:

[Benhurst]

2. Things are soooo grim now,

maybe they decided we need more dancing feet.