House ethics panel investigates sex scandal
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A committee responsible for enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday began investigating a sex scandal that has enveloped Republicans struggling to keep control of Congress in the November 7 election.
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The House ethics committee has found that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling allegations against former Rep. Mark Foley, but that they were negligent in protecting the teenage pages, sources said. No one will be reprimanded, the sources said.
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A House ethics panel has concluded that Republicans failed to adequately respond to warnings about a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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House leaders Ã¢ÂÂ namely Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Ã¢ÂÂ did not violate the rules of the House earlier this year in the handling of reports that ex-Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., had sent suggestive e-mails to a former page, according to the ethics committee, which concluded a nine-week investigation Friday.
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House leaders on Wednesday announced a task force to examine whether an outside panel should investigate ethics problems involving members of Congress.
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The House majority leader faces yet another ethics investigation
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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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The House ethics committee will investigate Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., to determine whether he violated standards of conduct when an illegally recorded telephone conversation was leaked to reporters during a committee investigation.
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The House ethics committee has determined that a trip to South Korea that two Republican congressmen cut short did not violate House travel rules.
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By AP Wire Services  SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Congress and federal investigators on Monday entered the fray surrounding Hewlett-Packard Co.'s possibly illegal probe of media leaks, as the company's board met to discuss the fate of its embattled chairwoman.    With the FBI, the U.S.
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House Democrats and Republicans wrestled Tuesday for ethics superiority, adopting competing measures aimed at beefing up enforcement by the House ethics committee and forcing a probe of indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson.
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By HERB JACKSON, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT  An aide to then-Rep. Bob Menendez tried to get reporters to investigate former Florida Rep. Mark Foley in 2005 after receiving several e-mails Foley had written to a former House page, the House ethics committee disclosed Friday.
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The House ethics committee opened an expansive investigation into the unfolding page sex scandal Thursday, approving four dozen subpoenas for witnesses and documents as House Speaker Dennis Hastert held his ground against pressure to resign.
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Republican lawmakers and aides failed for a decade to protect male pages from sexual come-ons by former Rep. Mark Foley &#151; once described as a "ticking time bomb" &#151; but they broke no rules and should not be punished, the House ethics committee concluded Friday.
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A House committee chairman who has been connected to lobbyists accused of bilking Indian tribes out of millions of dollars said Wednesday that he has been asked to meet with members of the House ethics committee.
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The US House ethics committee&#39;s rebuke of Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week focused on an issue never raised publicly before: the appearance of impropriety created by an exclusive
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By Rachel Konrad  Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia Dunn is under scrutiny from business and ethics experts after she oversaw an invasive and possibly illegal effort to snoop into the home phone calls of fellow HP board members.