House panel finds Republicans negligent in scandal
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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 Democrats declared that the latest case against the leader of the Republican majority proved that he was unfit to lead.
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The top Republican in the US House of Representatives said he had been &quot;duped&quot; by disgraced ex-lawmaker Mark Foley, whose sexual solicitations of teenage aides in Congress he decried as &quot;vile,&quot; and &quot;repugnant.&quot;
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The House ethics committee met in closed session Friday, indicating the panel could be close to finishing its report on ex-Rep. Mark Foley's improper advances toward former male pages.
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House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday aimed at reducing frivolous lawsuits.
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House Republican leaders should have kept Democrats in the loop &#151; and now must conduct a thorough investigation &#151; about the inappropriate e-mails that led to Rep. Mark Foley's resignation, a top Democrat said Sunday.
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Bolstered by a House Ethics Committee finding that parts of a complaint filed against him were exaggerated, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay lashed out Friday against
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In a Dec. 14 story about congressional ethics reform, The Associated Press erroneously reported the party of Delaware Rep. Mike Castle. He is a Republican, not a Democrat.
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Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey
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House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages. The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley.
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Congressional panel hears about the pretexting scandal from former chairman, one of few who didn't plead the Fifth.
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Members of the House ethics committee who are on the investigative panel looking into the handling of complaints about former Rep. Mark Foley's conduct toward teenage House pages and Internet messages to former pages:
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A US House of Representatives ethics panel launched an investigation into a sex scandal that has rocked President George W. Bush's Republican party ahead of key elections next month.
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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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Although there is no indication that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugarland is going to be indicted, the House Republican Conference decided Wednesday that a party committee of several dozen members would review any felony indictment against a party
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The scandal over the U.S. attorneys firing has now reached the "mistakes were made" stage . But the Attorney General's future may rest with the Republicans in Congress
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The congressional Republicans, in changing rules to protect Tom DeLay, were criticized as hypocritical. Such criticism was not founded on all the facts and ignores the reason for the change.