Democratic Leader Asks for Ethics Probe
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The House Democratic leader Thursday asked for an investigation of alleged threatening remarks made to the ethics committee chairman by GOP lawmakers.
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The Liberal Democrats call for a parliamentary inquiry into the handling of the proposed Â£1bn Trump golf resort.
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The US stock market watchdog has asked German justice officials for help probing possible corruption at engineering group Siemens, a spokesman for the federal justice office told AFP on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee Wednesday criticized House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for conduct that appeared to link political donations to legislation and for improperly contacting U.S. aviation authorities for political purposes, House sources said Wednesday...
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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has asked the House ethics committee to investigate House Speaker Dennis Hastert over comments suggesting that Soros could be receiving money from illegal drug groups.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for stricter oversight of ethical standards in government Wednesday, a week after an Associated Press report that a Bush administration official bought a $980,000 vacation home with an oil company lobbyist.
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Democrats urged the head of the Federal Communications Commission to take a more aggressive approach to the industries he oversees.
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House Democratic leaders yesterday called on Republican Tom DeLay to step down as majority leader after the powerful Texan was rebuked two times in the last week by the House ethics committee.
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A Democratic senator Wednesday asked the Bush administration to investigate Chinese logging practices that he said have hurt U.S. producers of hardwood used in furniture.
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Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, one of the nationâs foremost forensic pathologists, is facing 41 criminal counts that Congressional Democrats say are politically motivated.
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Two senior House Democrats demanded yesterday that Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne turn over documents to Congress in order to determine whether the administration was preventing federal scientists traveling abroad from discussing how global warming affects polar bears.
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Tuesday the Democratic Party needs to move past a recent dustup involving Hillary Rodham Clinton's comments about Martin Luther King Jr.
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More than 20 citizen groups are urging the new Democratic leaders in Congress to include in any ethics reform the denial of pensions to lawmakers convicted of felonies.
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The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday asked General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan to testify about allegations that she made "misleading and false" statements to an independent investigative agency.
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Whitehall's sleaze watchdog is urged to launch an inquiry into MPs expenses, in the wake of recent scandals.
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House leaders on Wednesday announced a task force to examine whether an outside panel should investigate ethics problems involving House members.
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A public admonishment of Majority Leader Tom DeLay by the House ethics committee spurred Democrats to call for further investigations and liberal interest groups to question how much longer he can hold onto power.