House ethics panel looks into sex scandal
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Lawmakers charged with enforcing  ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives met on Thursday to  begin an investigation of a sex scandal that has ensnared top  Republicans and could harm their chances of keeping control of  Congress in the November 7 elections.
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House leaders are creating a bipartisan task force on whether to establish an independent ethics panel to police the House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
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The House majority leader faces yet another ethics investigation
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Emerging Republican proposals to change the way House ethics complaints are handled present a serious threat to the House&#39;s ability to police itself, leaders of independent groups that monitor Congressional ethics say.
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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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Hollywood party girls don't have a monopoly on trouble in California. A disproportionate number of the state's congressional Republicans are facing ethics questions that threaten to sink their careers and their party's political fortunes too.
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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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By PETER HARDIN  SCOTT PICKED - A task force announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will look at setting up an outside panel to investigate ethics problems involving members of Congress. Virginia's Robert C. Scott was picked for the task force.
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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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Comments Friday on the House ethics committee's report on the page scandal:
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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.
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The FBI is assessing whether former Rep. Mark Foley broke any laws when he sent sexually explicit e-mails to a male teen-age congressional page and leaders of both parties demanded full-scale investigations into another untimely scandal for the Republicans.
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Republican U.S. House leaders faced mounting pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down for his handling of sexual messages sent to teen-age boys by Rep. Mark Foley.
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A House ethics panel has concluded that Republicans failed to adequately respond to 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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After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush's time in office, the GOP's governing record has dismayed those who fantasized about what Newt Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that muddied one of the GOP's few remaining patches of moral high ground. And if Republicans worried it would hurt their chances of keeping the House, they were right.
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House committee calls more witnesses to testify in HP scandal.
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House leaders are creating a bipartisan task force to recommend whether to establish an independent ethics panel to police the House, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.