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House Eyes Ethics Probes on 30 Members

Reps under scrutiny named in leaked document

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(Newser) – As the House ethics committee yesterday was voting to go forward with full investigations of Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson, it was putting out a bigger fire started when an internal document revealed more than 30 lawmakers were under scrutiny was leaked on the Internet. “No inference should be made as to any member,” Zoe Lofgren said of the report, which she said was preliminary.

The document shows that 33 representatives have been looked at over concerns about corporate and defense lobbying, the Washington Post reports. The ethics committee said in a statement that a staffer had mistakenly put the file into a publicly accessible file-sharing system, and that the staffer has been fired. The inquiries into Waters and Richardson, meanwhile, involve private financial matters.

Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif.
Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif.   (AP Photo)
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is facing an ethics investigation.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is facing an ethics investigation.   (AP Photo)
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riffran
Oct 29, 09 9:25 PM CDT
That's right...root ALL the bad apples out..irregardless of party Reply
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ultramarine13
Oct 29, 09 11:09 PM CDT
Agreed. Greed, like all other human attributes, is spread equally among all ethnicities, genders, ages, etc.
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pete_ess
Oct 30, 09 1:38 AM CDT
Agreed. But notice how the FIRST person they fire (and the only one they will fire rapidly and efficiently) is the person who DID NOT ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in a cover-up. The one who DID NOT hide facts from the taxpayers - SHE got fired. Bloody crooks and liars, the lot of them. And we listen to their bullshit and vote them back into office time and again! What is WRONG with us??
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hybrid
Oct 30, 09 6:42 AM CDT
But i though dems were the party of Change? Face it they all blow goats.
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Doctor_Zaius
Oct 30, 09 7:56 AM CDT
Who said they're all Dems? And who said they were guilty? Your sloppy logic leads you to poor conclusions.
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