[GeronL]

The GOPE controls the House, not the Senate. Not that there is much difference between them these days.

[lonevoice]

The deletion was made by the House Ethics Committee.

House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, R-Texas, did not return a call for comment; ranking member Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., referred questions to committee staff. The committee declined to comment.

"This is such an obvious effort to avoid accountability," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "There's no legitimate reason. There's no good reason for it."

As you say, there's not much difference between the GOPE House and the Senate.