House Considers Weakening Ethics Rules
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Republican leaders are considering a change in House ethics rules that could make it harder to discipline lawmakers.
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Anxiety over the new House ethics rules ratcheted up this week as lawmakers' spouses demanded clarification of whether the rules apply to them, and eight House members backed out of a fundraising gala for a major theatrical company when ethics lawyers stated that they could not attend as guests.
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Comments Friday on the House ethics committee's report on the page scandal:
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Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., is under strong consideration to become the next chairman of the House ethics committee as Speaker Dennis Hastert works to recast a panel roiled by controversy, Republican officials said Tuesday night.
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Senior House Democrats, seeking to placate members of their party from Republican-leaning districts, are pushing a plan that would place restrictions on President Bush's ability to wage the war in Iraq but would allow him to waive them if he publicly justifies  his position.
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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 Republicans voted to abandon a party rule that requires a member of the leadership to step aside if indicted.
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Washington -- With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say another setback could substantially weaken the lawmaker&#39;s ability to champion Republican
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for stricter oversight of ethical standards in government Wednesday, a week after an Associated Press report that a Bush administration official bought a $980,000 vacation home with an oil company lobbyist.
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Unable to agree on sweeping ethics legislation, the House this week will try to pass a narrower bill to shed light on pet projects that lawmakers tuck into spending and tax bills.
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The House Ethics Committee voted today to set up a subcommittee to investigate improper conduct between lawmakers and pages.
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The House Democratic leader Thursday asked for an investigation of alleged threatening remarks made to the ethics committee chairman by GOP lawmakers.
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With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say that another setback could substantially
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Republicans have been able to slow and sometimes halt the agenda of Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats.
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Some members of the House oversight committee may have violated a federal law against soliciting things of value from people with interests before the committee.
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The first action by congressional Republicans on returning to Washington after the November 2 election was to change their own ethics rules to protect House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who
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In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.