Lawmakers face scrutiny in House probe
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The House's investigation of a page sex scandal has only one certainty: Former Rep. Mark Foley will escape punishment by his peers.
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With the indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson throwing a spotlight on congressional behavior, House Democrats will try next week to change the chamberÃ¢ÂÂs rules to let outsiders file ethics complaints.
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U.S. lawmakers on Thursday plan to  shine a spotlight on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s  snooping  into the telephone records of some board members and  journalists, a practice that Congress may soon ban.
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A powerful House committee chairman released new details yesterday about a widening investigation into allegations of "improper conduct" by the chief of the U.S. General Services Administration.
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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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New allegations of poor financial stewardship at some of the nation's largest veterans charities surfaced yesterday as lawmakers took some of them to task and considered establishing federal oversight of nonprofit organizations.
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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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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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The Colorado Legislature launched an investigation Tuesday into whether a state lawmaker should be disciplined for kicking a newspaper photographer.
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The chairman of the House education committee called yesterday for an investigation into whether nonprofit student loan companies are abusing their tax-exempt status.
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Republican leaders are considering a change in House ethics rules that could make it harder to discipline lawmakers.
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A House committee said it would hold hearings into why the agency is withholding 24,000 responses to a government-sponsored safety survey.
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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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The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee are at an impasse over whether to subpoena jailed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as part of an investigation into his actions on the committee.
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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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The controversy has prompted two federal investigations and hearings on Capitol Hill.
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The Republican leader of the U.S.  House of Representatives said his office knew a year ago about  inappropriate contact between a former intern and newly  resigned Rep. Mark Foley and called on Saturday for a criminal  probe of the matter.