Lawmakers investigate sex scandal
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U.S. lawmakers opened their own  investigation on Thursday of the cybersex scandal involving a  Republican congressman who sent lewd messages to young aides,  and will interview dozens of officials just weeks before the  November 7 elections, imperiling Republican control of  Congress.
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to cast a wide net in its investigation of lewd e-mails sent by a Republican legislator to young pages, even looking into whether other lawmakers learned of them and failed to notify authorities. But legal experts said yesterday that...
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WASHINGTON - The US House ethics committee announced yesterday that it would investigate a complaint against Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle.
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Baseball Representatives of former Senator George Mitchell's commission examining illicit steroid use in Major League Baseball are scheduled to meet today with Albany County (N.Y.) prosecutors, who are investigating a nationwide drug distribution network. In their first meeting in March, prosecutors said they did not turn over any player names. Prosecutors and investigators have spent months sifting through thousands of ...
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Considered a long shot just two days ago to unseat a prominent House Republican, Democrat Tim Mahoney on Saturday began to talk about the scandal surrounding Rep. Mark Foley that may propel him to Congress.
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Some other Washington sex scandals from the past:
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House of Representatives Republican leaders, already facing a tough election fight to keep control of the U.S. Congress, struggled on Monday to contain a mushrooming sex scandal just five weeks before the November 7 vote.
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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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Aided by public revulsion over an Internet-age sex scandal, Democrats enter the final month of the campaign well-positioned to challenge for control of Congress, while Republicans increasingly express concern about holding onto power.
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House of Representatives Republican leaders faced growing pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down amid Republican fears about the potential fallout in November's fight for control of Congress.
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The House Republicans' campaign arm may be a victim of fraud by a former employee, and it has asked law enforcement officials to investigate "irregularities in our financial audit process."
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Two senior Democratic lawmakers asked Wednesday for a congressional investigation into long Election Day lines, including some that took hours to get through and continued even past midnight.
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Two senior U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday raised questions about the Securities and Exchange Commission's handling of an insider trading investigation that involved hedge fund Pequot Capital and John Mack, chief executive of Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley .
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A House panel on Wednesday is scheduled to examine a woman's accusations that she was drugged and raped by co-workers at a contracting firm in Iraq two years ago.
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A state lawmaker on Tuesday asked the Georgia attorney general to investigate a prosecutor's release of an amateur video showing a man who has spent years in prison for child molestation having consensual sex with two teenage girls.
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Ukrainian MPs are seeking a parliamentary investigation into allegations that money from the United States government was used to help fund the opposition during the recent electoral campaign.
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Two senior U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday  raised questions about the Securities and Exchange Commission's  handling of an insider trading investigation that involved  hedge fund Pequot Capital and John Mack, chief executive of  Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley .