Ethics Panel Finds No Rules Violations in Foley Case
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House leaders Ã¢ÂÂ namely Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Ã¢ÂÂ did not violate the rules of the House earlier this year in the handling of reports that ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., had sent suggestive e-mails to a former page, according to the ethics committee, which concluded a nine-week investigation Friday.
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An FBI raid on the Capitol Hill  office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery  scandal did not violate the constitutional separation of  powers, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Sunday.
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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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Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated ethics standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving Republican leaders a decade ago, the House ethics committee said Monday.
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By HERB JACKSON, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT  An aide to then-Rep. Bob Menendez tried to get reporters to investigate former Florida Rep. Mark Foley in 2005 after receiving several e-mails Foley had written to a former House page, the House ethics committee disclosed Friday.
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Athens Olympics organizers have  vehemently denied any financial improprieties in the run-up to  this year's Games as suggested in an audit report this week.
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A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules.
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The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the panel will move forward with a probe into the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations, despite a Justice Department request that congressional inquiries be suspended.
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U.S. House officials, in rebuffing efforts by Florida investigators to access former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's congressional computers, said they found no sexually explicit photos
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Despite charges of bid-rigging and conflicts of interest against the insurance industry, Connecticut insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell said she has not found corruption in Connecticut.
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The prosecution team responsible for investigating accusations that civilian government employees abused detainees has not brought a single indictment.
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House leaders on Wednesday announced a task force to examine whether an outside panel should investigate ethics problems involving House members
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An ABC News internal investigation has concluded that the reporting of a discredited consultant did not cause any inaccuracies in its broadcast.
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TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 23 -- An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction,  Florida's secretary of state said Friday.
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Victims' Commission members had no concerns over the term "IRA volunteer", a commissioner says.
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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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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.