Sean Casten reacts to Gaetz ethics report On Monday morning, the public got its first look into the House Ethics Committee's findings on former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a Republican. Democratic Rep. Sean Casten of Illinois, who had been pushing for the report's release, joins CBS ...
House Ethics panel finds no violation by freshman Democrat Trahan congress Ethics probe into Rep. Alcee Hastings ends after disclosure he married aide Legal Judges wrestle with power of House ethics office Congress Ethics panel sanctions Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers for misusing campaign funds ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee voted in secret to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, raising the possibility that the allegations against the Florida Republican who was President-elect Donald Trump's first choi
It's highly unusual, but not unprecedented, for the House Ethics Committee to release a report on a member who is no longer in office. In other investigations, the prospect of a report's release has been enough to prompt the target of the probe to resign from Congress to keep it under ...
Analysis: House Ethics Committee deadlocked over ethics rules changesMELISSA BLOCK
On December 27, 2012, the House of Representatives Committee on Ethics released a statement announcing the conclusion of the Committee's review of the allegations related to the "V.I.P." program of the Countrywide Financial Corporation (Countrywide). The statement opened by saying, "In accordance...
The House Ethics Committee.The House Ethics Committee.The House Ethics Committee Mon. released documents detailing three counts of alleged ethics violations by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., including a charge that she requested federal help for a bank in which her husband owned stock and whose ...
In a briefstatement, Santos’s office said that the congressman is “fully cooperating” with the Ethics Committee’s investigation. “There will be no further comment made at this time.” The Ethics Committee noted in a statement that establishment of an investigative subcommittee does not in it...
House Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) Committee.House Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) Committee.The article features the staff of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee of the U.S. House of Representative. Staff director William O'Reilly has attempted to implement newly required e...
That’s why legislative work is needed, committee chairman Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, said recently. “There’s so much gray area in our ethics laws right now as to who they apply to,” he said. “They directly apply to 300,000 people, but by the time we count their families and...