Topic: U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
Reuters US Online Report Politics News | 2010-02-27 04:46:45
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House ethics committee on Friday cleared seven lawmakers of improperly or illegally considering campaign contributions when steering earmarks amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly no-bid contracts to some 40 companies. In a 305-page report, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said its nine-month investigation revealed a widespread perception among corporations and lobbyists ...
AP News | 2010-02-26 00:17:15
Ethics committee finds no violation in probe of lawmakers who got pet projects for donors
The House ethics committee has ended an investigation of five lawmakers who steered government money and contracts to favored companies and also got campaign contributions from them. The panel says it found no violation of House rules. A copy of the letters and an accompanying ...
AP News | 2010-02-25 23:47:46
FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Associated Press has learned that the House ethics committee has concluded that Rangel ...
AP News | 2009-10-30 05:00:40
<div id="subtitle">Confidential House ethics committee weekly report from July inadvertently reaches the Net</div><div><p>A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.</p><p>The ...
