Posted on 10/23/2006 7:35:59 AM PDT by SmithL
THE HOUSE ETHICS Committee typically takes its time -- and then some -- when investigating accusations of ethical lapses among its members. Its work is usually conducted in deep secrecy. Often the public doesn't even know when an investigation is underway, or even who is being called to testify before the committee.
The sleepy pace of these investigations reflects Congress' entrenched timidity in taking on its own members. The pace becomes even more glacial when the party that is in the majority has to investigate one its own.
That's what makes the investigation into the Mark Foley e-mail scandal so distinctive.
Under intense public pressure, the House leadership put the normally somnabulent committee into high gear to investigate the Florida congressman. The committee launched a "full scale investigation," with the pledge to "go wherever the evidence takes us."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Yeah, they want fast and fair, unless the Democrats are implicated.
Talk about beating a dead horse, the TeeVee and the radio and the newspapers all are still making this story one.
"Under intense public pressure, the House leadership put the normally somnabulent committee into high gear to investigate the Florida congressman. "
In other words, Moveon.org and George Soros.
So, Bubblehead..........how's the FBI investigation of Congressman Jefferson of Louisiana going.....? No doubt it'll be wrapped up before the mid-term elections.
Which mid-term election?
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