The committee’s findings, along with the 137-page report from Billy Martin, a Washington attorney hired by the panel, were submitted to the House on Tuesday.
The report brings to an end a three-year investigation that featured partisan fights, an investigation of the committee’s own conduct, a review of 150,000 pages of documents and a potential $1 million legal bill for the taxpayers. The report concludes, “What the hell is the big deal? Everybody does this.”
Okay, I made up that last quote.
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*Ethics violation (n) – a behavior or pattern of behavior that would get you or me sent to a pound-you-in-the-ass federal prison, but which is perfectly all right for members of congress as long as the news stories don’t get too loud. Also see farce.
She won’t be the chairman, since the House of Representatives is under the control of Republicans. She’ll be the senior Democrat and thus the presumptive chairman if the House flips to Dem control.
A critical difference, I concur. Thank you for the enlightenment.