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Posted on 01/25/2011 12:06:49 PM PST by jazusamo
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tapped Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) as the new ranking member on the House Ethics Committee.
Sanchez replaces Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) who left the top Democratic slot after a turbulent tenure as chairwoman. Lofgren agreed to serve temporarily until Democrats could find a successor but had asked to step down as soon as possible.
Sanchez, who became known for her tenacity while chairing a Judiciary subcommittee, is a fellow Californian and loyal supporter of Pelosi’s. She will serve opposite Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the top Republican on the panel for the last two years. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) tapped Bonner as chairman earlier this month.
Democrats have been struggling to find a replacement for Lofgren and were having a difficult time convincing someone to take the job after a rocky few yeas for the panel. They also wanted someone tough but fair to counter Bonner, who at first worked well with Lofgren until last summer when he publicly criticized her.
The usually secretive ethics committee’s last two years were unusually busy as the panel wrestled with the investigations and public trials of Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and Charles Rangel (N.Y.), whom the House ultimately censured in December.
Partisan tensions flared openly last summer when Bonner, in a public statement, accused Lofgren of stalling the trials until after the midterm elections for political purposes.
The messy public spectacles involving Waters and Rangel played out in the final months of a difficult and ultimately devastating campaign for Democrats.
Sanchez’s impartiality will be tested as the panel struggles to deal with the fallout over the Waters case. The ethics committee indefinitely delayed Waters’s public trial after it discovered new evidence and subsequently put the lead attorney and an assisting attorney on administrative leave.
Late last year, the panel considered hiring outside counsel to handle the Waters case in order to restore credibility to the investigation. Early this year, the panel must decide whether to hire an outside counsel or proceed on its own.
Imagine using “Linda Sanchez” and “ethics” in the same sentence with a straight face.
Exactly. I firmly believe Pelosi and Lofgren tried to conceal additional evidence against Waters and they got caught, that’s why Lofgren wants out. We’ll soon see.
That’s definitely quite a stretch. :-)
“Imagine using “Linda Sanchez” and “ethics” in the same sentence with a straight face.”
Imagine using the phrase “Congressional ethics” with a straight face. It’s no harder.
Thank you jazusamo!! Loretta Sanchez is another dem I really don’t like to listen to. Her name “switch” to beat B-1_Bob Dornan is all I need to know about her.
BTTT !!
IMO, if they had found a smoking gun, they would have sat on it to keep it from being seen--civility, doncha know? If I am not mistaken, a Repub Senator chaired the panel. Anyone?
vaudine
LOL Ranking member. Sanchez is the one that uses her gringo or mexican name whenever it helps her. She should definitely go.
Linda Sanchez, younger of the two congressional Sanchez sisters. Check out the eyebrows.
The two Sanchez sisters - Dumb and Dumber.
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