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Hefley joins Dems on ethics
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 16, 2005 01:25pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Alexander Bolton and Patrick O'Connor
Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), the former chairman of the House ethics committee, said yesterday that he will co-sponsor a bill to repeal or revise changes that Republican leaders made to the committee’s procedure at the start of the 109th Congress.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Alan Mollohan (W.Va.), the ranking Democrat on the ethics committee, who along with four other Democrats has refused to adopt new rules for the committee until his proposed changes to ethics procedures are adopted or given serious consideration.
More than 190 House Democrats have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill since Mollohan introduced it two weeks ago. Thus far, only one Republican, Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) has signed up as a co-sponsor. But Hefley’s support is expected to provide incentive and political cover to other Republicans who are thinking about supporting the ethics legislation.
It is unclear how many other Republicans will endorse Mollohan’s measure.
Both Shays and Hefley voted for the House rules package in January that changed the ethics committee’s procedures for the new Congress.
“I believe that Representative Hefley’s co-sponsorship of this would send a very important signal to other Republicans that this makes sense and should be done,” said Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21. Wertheimer, along with the leaders of seven other government watchdog groups, called yesterday for the House to repeal the changes that Republican leaders made to the ethics process in the rules package the chamber adopted at the beginning of the year.
“It’s going to need Republican co-sponsors and votes to ultimately pass,” he said. |
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