http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/house-ethics-committee-investigations-94805.html?hp=f1/2013/07/debt-ceiling-continuing-resolution-fiscal-armageddon-congress-94785.html?hp=t2_3
The House Ethics Committee is reviewing cases against four members of Congress, including Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and one member of GOP leadership, the panel announced Friday.
The Ethics Committee is probing Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) and Chief Republican Deputy Whip Peter Roskam of Illinois.The Office of Congressional Ethics recommended full investigations of all four members.The Ethics Committee — which has already been reviewing the OCE recommendations for 45 days — has another 45 days to decide whether to move forward with full-scale investigations or end the reviews. If the Ethics Committee decides not to launch its own probes into the four members, it must release the OCE reports on each case.
do they take this all the way, to fact not like Issa and his gang there is no crime to find, but this investigation , Bachmann alone can validate the effort. not saying the Dems are innocent but at least go after someone when there is proof not when you want something to be crooked and set about making it crooked when it's not except in your head.
The Ethics Committee, which operates largely in secret, announced it also looked into a 2008 trip to Turkey by several unnamed Hill aides that was sponsored by the Turkish Coalition of America. The trip was approved by the Ethics Committee at the time, but it was later determined that the sponsoring group employed a lobbyist, making it ineligible to sponsor such an excursion.The Ethics Committee determined that the five aides “acted in good faith, relied on the Committee’s review and approval of the trip, and had no knowledge that TCA employed or retained a lobbyist.”
what has taken so long 2008 really again this is the waste they are being paid and everything having to do with the process is funded till they decide what to do, then funded for the months the take to re-investigate what they have already been paid and made that decision.
politics is a racket and will be until we demand changes to the discretion's available to those who have done nothing for almost 5 years and those who threaten us with destructive hostage taking just to cut more babies and elderly off food stamps, and medicare while they refuse to tax the rich another penny even when they say they don't care.
like the Pentagon says it does not want more vehicles of destruction but just like us the congress knows best, so they take it, store it, and wait for the next forced acceptance of things of war.
