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Oh, please!!! It was 7 years ago. Leave it alone. Statute of limitations and all that rubbish.

From the article:
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan concluded earlier this year that McDermott was responsible for the leak...

Looks as though the House was, reasonably, waiting for the court system to issue a finding before proceeding with an 'internal House matter'. It would be unseemly, and honestly presumptious, to issue an ethics ruling with a case pending in Federal court. Now that there has been a finding of fault in this case, the House has grounds to pursue the ethics complaint.

Now that there has been a finding of fault in this case, the House has grounds to pursue the ethics complaint.

Who gives a rats a$$? It's nothing but politics. We howl like stuck pigs when the Dems pull these cheap stunts on us, then we turn around and pull the same thing!? For what?

It's been seven freakin' years, nobody remembers or cares about the "leak" and an ethics committee investigation has no meaning. The worst thing they will do is embarrass MsDermott, get the Dems all riled up into a flurry of name-calling and finger pointing, stir up the MSM into running a slew of "see what we mean about Republicans being bad guy" articles just so they can issue him a slap on the wrist.

The don't take his pay check, they don't refuse him his seat in the House, they can't stop him from running for re-election; they have no power to do anything but drag his name through the mud.

If that's all our Congress Critters have to do on our time and our dime, let'em stay home and find real jobs and we can elect people who are more interested in the needs of the country. We already know that Dems are losers, we don't need this dog and pony show to prove it!

the House was, reasonably, waiting for the court system to issue a finding before proceeding with an 'internal House matter'.

The US House or US Senate is certainly not required to wait for all court activity to expire prior to dealing with an ethics complaint for one of its members. There are numerous precidents for same. Many, many pending cases come before the House while still pending in court. Ask Enron execs. Perhaps the "pending court case" excuse was used but, in my view, it was ill-advised to hold up hearings until seven years after this clear violation of member trust and federal law. Recall that McDermott never has denied giving this tape/transcript of private phone conversations of House leadership to the media. You or I would have been in front of a judge within days or weeks, not years on a similar violation.
By the way, how come the DemocRAT activists who originally recorded these conversations (with sophisticated electronic surveilance equipment) have never been held accountable? Their excuse was that they just happened upon these conversations and began taping. Ha. There was something much more sinister in all of this and it was probably planned all along to record these private phone conversations of the US Congressional leadership....