United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

...when he retired if he voted for the drug bill. One of those members, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was later admonished by the House Ethics Committee for going over the line in his efforts regarding Smith. Eventually, the...

In this article: Medicare, Trent Franks, Butch Otter, Nick Smith, Bruce Bartlett, and Ernest Istook

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct actually completed an investigation of a member of Congress. The ethics committee is notorious for its bipartisan ability to dodge and defer investigations that might cast House members...

In this article: Sam Graves and House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

...of this post on the original site Tagged: Internet, digital, frontpage, politics, software, BitTorrent, Congress, Digits, First Family, House Ethics Committee, Justice Stephen Breyer, Marisa Taylor, peer-to-peer, Pirate Bay, Secure Federal...

In this article: Peer-to-peer, Pirate Bay, Dow Jones, File sharing, LimeWire, BitTorrent, Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer, and House Ethics Committee

...which network members can share computer and music files. The Washington Post reported last month on the inner workings of the House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics. The information came from a committee...

In this article: Peer-to-peer, Edolphus Towns, House Ethics Committee, LimeWire, Stephen G. Breyer, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

...Sloan said. "This was clearly political." If the Office of Congressional Ethics finds the complaint valid, it can refer the case to the House Ethics Committee for sanctions. 5 indicted in scam targeting agencies in 4 states - November...

In this article: Michele Bachmann, Washington, House Ethics Committee, Committee on House Administration, Minnesota, and West Virginia

...Charlie Rangel, has apparently filed fraudulent tax returns for years and has even ripped off the New York City rent-control regime. The House Ethics Committee, not an organization martyred to the work ethic, has been "looking into" this for...

In this article: U.S., Barack Obama, Conrad Black, Britain, Democracy, Dick Durbin, World War II, Civil War, and United Auto Workers

..."created an inherent conflict of interest that gave rise to the appearance of preferential treatment." Earlier this month, the House Ethics Committee cleared Shuler, saying in a letter that "your actions in these matters were not...

In this article: Heath Shuler, Knoxville, Tax, Roll Call, and Roane County

...has Rep. Charlie Rangel been up to lately? Well, the Ways & Means Committee chairman -- whose various indiscretions have been before the House Ethics Committee for more than a year now -- introduced legislation last month to curtail the use...

In this article: Charlie Rangel, Tax, Nabors Industries, Adam Clayton Powell IV, House Ethics Committee, Harlem, City College, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

...donation is illegal, investigators must show an explicit agreement to exchange campaign donations for the promise of government funds. The House Ethics Committee is investigating whether several defense-panel members from both parties...

In this article: John Murtha, Peter Visclosky, Wiley Rein LLP, Justice Department, Beneficiaries, Washington, Appropriation, and U.S. Navy

In a letter released Wednesday, the committee said it was dropping its probe of the North Carolina Democrat after concluding that his actions in a land deal involving the Tennessee Valley Authority "were not improper in any way and did not...

In this article: House Ethics Committee, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Washington Redskins