[Servant of the Cross]

The only Speaker in History to be removed for ethics.

Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich

He was NOT removed for ethics. You need to get out more, and off of those stupid LRon Paul websites and newsletters.

Or lighten up on the ganja ....

[BigEdLB]

Even the dinosaurs are amazed! Right here, I saw a saucer land, and out stepped Ron Paul!

[Afronaut]

A further problem for Gingrich was that during the investigation, he submitted letters from his lawyers for which “the subcommittee was unable to find any factual basis.” Gingrich “should have known” that the information in the letters “was inaccurate, incomplete, and unreliable,” the investigation found.

The allegations were largely adjudicated by January 1997, with Gingrich agreeing to pay a sum of $300,000 and admitting that he had “engaged in conduct that did not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.” He became the first speaker to be sanctioned in this fashion by the House.