Leaked report reveals dozens of Congressmembers under investigation

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sent by PHred42 since 21 days 23 hours 3 minutes, published about 21 days 17 hours 43 minutes
Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct — also known as the Ethics committee — shook the chamber as lawmakers were immersed in a series of scheduled votes Thursday.
tags: corruption, bribery
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  1. #1    These are the people you idiots want to put in charge of our nations health care!?! What do you expect is going to happen when politicians have such influence over what should be private businesses? They use their influence to get what they want. Democrats trust these politicians with our banks, democrats trust these politicians with the car companies, democrats trust these politicians with health care. This is just the tip of the ice burgh.

    The democrats refuse to investigate Dodd and Conrad: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28531.html

    Politicians can't keep their greedy hands out of GM: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125677552001414699.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

    Keep pushing your socialist agenda and we'll see a whole lot more of this.
    written by Osnoba since 21 days 16 hours 55 minutesOsnoba
  2. #2    The report included this little line: "...nearly half the members of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee were under scrutiny". No doubt our war for profit congress critters had nothing to do with all these troop surges or the expansion of conflict all over the world. I say we hang them all or put them all in flack jackets and drop them into Somalia for life.
    written by bluefin since 21 days 15 hours 42 minutesbluefin
  3. #3    Here is a list of the members of the House under investigation, according to the leaked report:

    Norm Dicks, D-WA-06
    *Marcy Kaptur, D-OH-09
    *James Moran, D-VA-08
    John Murtha, D-PA-12
    *Laura Richardson, D-CA-37
    Todd Tiahrt, R-KS-04
    Peter Visclosky, D-IN-01
    *Maxine Waters, D-CA-35
    C.W. Bill Young, R-FL-10

    Of the six Democrats, sadly, four are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (marked with asterisks).
    written by hterrya since 21 days 14 hours 58 minuteshterrya
  4. #4    Somalia.... YES!

    Flak Jacket.... HELL NO!

    In addition, paint em all bright red with a big ass yellow stripes down their backs!!!!!

    You can put Murtha on "point"

    :-)
    written by mercman since 21 days 14 hours 54 minutesmercman
  5. #5    The largest corporations and richest individuals in the US make multi-million dollar contributions to members of Congress on a daily basis. The Congresspersons who receive these "donations" can take them for personal use at the end of their careers if they do not use them beforehand to get re-elected. These same politicians conjure up legislation that puts billions back into the hands of the same corporations and individuals that gave them campaign contributions. All this is legal...legalized bribery that is. And this committee is worried about a few politicians who MAY have been unethical? And it just so happens that these same politicians are the most progressive Democrats in...

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    written by oekoman since 21 days 14 hours 44 minutesoekoman
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