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Ethics delayed.(Devil in the Details)

American Prospect, The,  February, 2005  by Rosenfeld, Sam

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HOUSE REPUBLICANS finally have an ethics committee they can call their own.

The relationship between the GOP caucus and the committee has been strained ever since the panel handed down three admonishments to Majority Leader Tom DeLay last fall for various improprieties and ethical lapses. Perplexed and alarmed that the committee, under the chairmanship of conservative Republican Joel Hefley of Colorado, had somehow gotten the impression that it had the right to extend ethics rebukes to Republicans, the leadership set out to fix this heinous system of functioning accountability ...

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