Committee Finds GOP Leaders Did Not Break House Rule in Foley Case
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WASHINGTON _ Republican congressional leaders and their staffs were "willfully ignorant" in responding to early warnings of improper advances toward underage male pages by then-Rep. Mark Foley of Florida but did not violate any House rules, the House ethics committee concluded Friday.
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A House ethics panel concluded that Republicans failed to adequately respond to early warnings about a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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Republicans' hold on U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's seat has gone from safe to shaky overnight.
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Federal investigators have asked the House of Representatives to keep computer records and papers from former Rep. Mark Foley, a senior Justice Department official said Wednesday. The move is a sign that a criminal investigation into the congressman's correspondences with teen pages is imminent, Justice Department officials said.
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A Democratic congressional candidate whose son was abducted 17 years ago said GOP congressional leadership failed to protect teenage House pages from former Rep. Mark Foley's advances.
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Republicans were negligent in  protecting young interns after early warnings about a U.S.  lawmaker who resigned in a House sex scandal shortly before the  November 7 election, an ethics panel concluded on Friday.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief  Executive Mark Hurd told lawmakers on Thursday there were no  excuses for a probe of boardroom leaks that led investigators  to obtain private telephone records deceptively.
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Top Republicans were negligent in failing to protect young interns from a lawmaker who resigned in an Internet sex scandal shortly before the November 7 elections, a congressional ethics panel concluded on Friday.
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House Republicans are considering a change in party rules so that Tom DeLay would not have to step down as majority leader should he be indicted in a Texas investigation.
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House ethics committee leaders, answering critics who questioned whether the panel's Republicans could impartially investigate their majority leader, Tom DeLay, said Friday the committee will make decisions "regardless of any political affiliations or personal relationships."
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The top-giving corporate political action committees didn't hedge their bets in the fall elections despite the narrow division between the GOP and Democrats in Congress. They favored Republican candidates 10-to-1.
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WASHINGTON - US House Republicans demonstrated their loyalty to Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land on Wednesday. The lawmakers changed a party rule that would have cost DeLay his leadership post if
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A committee responsible for enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday began investigating a sex scandal that has enveloped Republicans struggling to keep control of Congress in the November 7 election.
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Top Republicans were negligent in failing to protect teen-age interns from a lawmaker who resigned in an Internet sex scandal shortly before the November 7 elections, a congressional ethics panel concluded on Friday.
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Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office was notified of concerns about then-Rep. Mark Foley more than three years ago, a former aide to Foley says. If true, that would suggest GOP leaders knew of concerns about Foley earlier than they have said. Hastert's chief of staff said the meeting "did not happen."
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Republican U.S. House leaders faced mounting pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down for his handling of sexual messages sent to teen-age boys by Rep. Mark Foley.