Ethics Committee to meet, but it's not clear if vote on Gaetz report is on its agenda....
umm.. Releasing the report may not even be on their agenda. Interesting.
Ethics Committee to meet, but it's not clear if vote on Gaetz report is on its agenda
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ethics-committee-meet-clear-vote-gaetz-report-agenda/story?id=116019033
The committee has a reputation for being tight-lipped.
By John Parkinson, Lauren Peller, and Will Steakin
November 20, 2024, 4:10 AM
The bipartisan House Ethics Committee will meet Wednesday behind closed doors, where it's poised to discuss its report on its investigation of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who resigned from office last week after President-elect Donald Trump chose him as his nominee for attorney general.
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This June, the committee announced it was still investigating whether Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”
But it announced it would take “no further action” on the allegations that he may have shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.
The committee generally drops investigations of House members if they leave office but Republicans and Democrats have argued whether a break in that precedent is necessary for the Senate to perform its constitutional duty to advise and consent to presidential nominations.
While the clearest above-water path for the report’s release is by agreeing to a majority vote by the Ethics Committee, there is also speculation that any single member could offer a privileged resolution on the House floor to force an up-or-down vote on its disclosure.
Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss, has been tight-lipped about the meeting agenda on Wednesday but said he has read the Gaetz report.
Ranking Democrat Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania told reporters that the Gaetz report should be disclosed to the public.
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“You either are going to disclose it or you're not going to disclose it. So, and there's plenty of precedents in the Ethics Committee to disclose the report even after a member has resigned,” Wild said Monday night.......................................
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if an elephant is already taking up all the room? 