[Brytani]

Buried REAL deep in the article, not that it should come as a shock from an AP/Google report.

“The resolution introduced by Boehner would have given the ethics committee no choice about investigating what Democratic leaders knew about Massa. Instead, the House voted 402-1 to allow the ethics committee to decide its next step.”

They didn’t lose, it has moved to the ethics committee for the next step, which if common sense prevails (yes I know, this is DC) would be an investigation.

[MestaMachine]

The resolution introduced by Boehner would have given the ethics committee no choice about investigating what Democratic leaders knew about Massa. Instead, the House voted 402-1 to allow the ethics committee to decide its next step.

The committee has five members from each party, but a tie vote would kill any proposal to investigate Democratic leaders.