Posted on 10/30/2009 6:13:37 AM PDT by Abathar
WASHINGTON -- Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.
Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct -- also known as the Ethics committee -- shook the chamber as lawmakers were immersed in a series of scheduled votes Thursday.
The panel announced that it was probing two California Democrats -- Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson -- even as its embarrassed leaders took pains to explain that several other lawmakers also identified in the leaked confidential committee memo may have committed no wrongdoing.
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Times, they might be finally changing at the MSM...
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Well Pelosi is certainly keep her promise to run the “most open and most ethical Congress in history”.....
Sorry but the political class will pay no penalty for being the most corrupt government in history.
I didn’t, they changed the headline just after I posted it and added the word Congressional.
Look at me, NOT being surprised that
MaRxine Waters is corrupt, and stupid enough to get caught.
Look what Friends in “Low Places” can do for you.
“...lawmaker ethics...” Prime example of an oxymoron.
And, since the dim-bulb-crats are in control, get serious. Is Rangle still there? Is Pelosi still there? Is Reid still there?
‘Nuff said.
That was stunning.
Only a DemonRAT kool-aid drinker would believe this.
she’ll take this opportunity to brag about how many investigations are ongoing and how she won’t tolerate misdeeds.
Meanwhile, Charlie Rangel continues to make tax policy...
This is on top of the ones that are public knowledge, like Rangel.
Nanci’s house if full of corruption and she refuses to answer any questions about it. Even the democrats are starting to see to what depths our House has sunk to.
Waters really is a dim-witted witch. The only reason she’s in congress is because she’s black.
Looks like Nancy’s efforts to ‘drain the swamp’ aren’t working out too well. Must be beavers.
It took $90,000 cash hidden in a freezer to get Jefferson out of Congress. Anything less and the media will give thema all a mulligan.
They didn’t go after Rangel. They didn’t care about a lot of crooked crap. The fact that this has gone this far is telling, this was apparently a REALLY bad breach of something.
LOL, don't get your hopes up yet.
I was talking to one of those believers of “government is just the personification of the collective will of the people” people who believes that, inherently, government is made up of the best and brightest and has the best interests of the people in mind,
and she’d never heard of Ma(r)xine Waters.
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