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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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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The US House ethics committee&#39;s rebuke of Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week focused on an issue never raised publicly before: the appearance of impropriety created by an exclusive
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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 House ethics committee reported Friday that Republican lawmakers and aides failed to protect young male pages from former Rep. Mark Foley's improper advances, concluding an investigation into a scandal that convulsed Congress and contributed to the GOP defeat in last month's elections.
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Top Republicans were negligent in failing to protect teen-age 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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After winning control of Congress by capitalizing on Republican scandals, Democrats are unsure whether to crack down on a perk that got some lawmakers in trouble.
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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.
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Democrats used the Foley scandal to turn up the heat on Republicans on Saturday, a month before elections to the House and Senate. They devoted their weekly radio address to accusing House Republican leaders of ignoring then-Rep. Mark Foley's "obvious predatory signals ... to protect their political power." Inquiries have begun and Speaker Dennis Hastert says he did "nothing wrong."
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House Democratic leaders on Thursday sought removal of two recently appointed Republicans from the ethics committee, questioning whether their judgment would be influenced by contributions to Majority Leader Tom DeLay's legal defense fund.
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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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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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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.
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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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The House ethics committee has ruled that a Democratic lawmaker exaggerated in the accusations he brought in June against the majority leader, Representative Tom DeLay.
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House of Representatives Republican  leaders, already facing a tough election fight to keep control  of the U.S. Congress, struggled on Monday to contain a  mushrooming sex scandal just five weeks before the November 7  vote.