House panel finds Republicans negligent in scandal
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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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House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats questioned whether the House's GOP leadership had squelched concerns about Foley, a Republican who now has resigned.
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Republicans could face ethics investigations for contacting U.S. attorneys about pending cases, a jarring political development only four months after ethical lapses helped cost the GOP control of Congress
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Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House Republican majority leader, who has been under investigation for possible ethics violations, claimed vindication today after
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The White House and GOP leaders are standing together in supporting embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire over the handling of the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. A conservative newspaper has called on Hastert, R-Illinois, to step down, but he says that won't be happening.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert is considering replacing the chairman of the ethics committee, which admonished Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is the focus of a grand jury probe into his campaign finance practices.
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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 congressional ethics committee approved about 50 subpoenas on Thursday as it launched a probe into former Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with teenage assistants in a sex scandal enveloping Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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Spurred by an investigation connected to the majority leader, House Republicans voted Wednesday to abandon an 11-year-old party rule that required a member of their leadership to step aside temporarily if indicted.
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MOVE TO EASE ETHICS RULES: After Tom DeLay is snared in an ethics probe, House Republicans consider ways to make it harder to discipline members of Congress.
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Our position is: Politics trumped ethics in the House GOP vote to drop its no-indictment rule for the majority leader. When he was admonished by the House ethics committee last month for holding a golf fund
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A US House of Representatives ethics panel launched an investigation into a sex scandal that rocked President George W. Bush's Republican Party a month before legislative elections.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay by changing a party rule that likely would have forced him to step down if he is indicted in a Texas political corruption investigation.
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Henry A. Waxman said Wednesdayâs hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Clemens, who he thought did not tell the truth, as well Brian McNamee, who he thought was unfairly attacked by committee Republicans.
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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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As if the House page scandal involving former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) hadn't done enough damage to Republicans, now we discover that legal bills arising from it landed former speaker J. Dennis Hastert's campaign committee in hot water with the Federal Election Commission.
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Faced with fending off the backlash from the Mark Foley scandal, House Republicans took the offensive Friday, asking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other rivals to testify about whether they engaged in partisan trickery by releasing Foley's messages weeks before the midterm elections.