It resulted in one of the three admonishments issued to DeLay last fall by the House ethics committee.
Just in the past week, the House Ethics Committee began taking testimony about Foley.
In DeLay's case, he presumably could seek to restore the House Ethics Committee to operating condition.
But the leisurely itinerary masked grave deliberations between the Speaker and the House ethics committee.
The drip-drip-drip of scandal continues and is likely to get wetter as the House ethics committee investigates.
The House ethics committee began investigating Kim last year and started taking testimony in the case this month.
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Whatever happens to the House Ethics Committee, Jack Abramoff faces investigations by a Senate committee and the Justice Department.
The House Ethics Committee, apparently duped by glory-hunting reporters, is investigating Rangel for an alleged 13 different ethics violations.
To talk about where the House Ethics Committee is now, you have to remember what was happening a year ago.
In March, Jackson decisively won a heated primary despite being the subject of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
But House members' ethics would still be enforced by the House Ethics Committee, a panel with a record charitably described as spotty.
Earlier this year, the House Republicans installed a new chairman on the House Ethics Committee and restocked the panel with new Republican members.
And he recoiled when a reporter suggested it might clear the air if the House ethics committee looked into his New York living arrangements.
First elected in 1998, the five-term congresswoman was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and served as chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee.
The House ethics committee released the results of its three-month investigation into sexually suggestive e-mails sent by former Republican congressman Mark Foley to male congressional pages.
It was the suggestion that he may have lied to the House ethics committee about the college course he taught and financed through a tax-exempt foundation.
Three times within two weeks the House ethics committee has rebuked the Republican leader for being over-aggressive in his pursuit of corporate donations and political advantage.
The FBI, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the House Ethics Committee are investigating Foley's conduct -- and whether there was any attempt to cover it up.
On top of his indictment and the Abramoff connection, he was reprimanded three times by the House Ethics Committee for misusing his post when he was majority leader.
Beyond the personnel changes, House Republicans have also moved to change the rules of the House ethics committee, making it much harder for the panel to investigate politically charged cases.
The chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Alabama, and the ranking Democrat, U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez of California, defended their committee's interpretation of the law in a written statement to CNN.
The chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Alabama, and the ranking Democrat, U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez of California, defended their committee's interpretation of the law in a written statement to CNN last month.
Three female committee chairwomen will also be losing their powerful perches: Rep. Louise Slaughter at the House Rules Committee, Rep. Nydia Velazquez at the Small Business Committee and Rep. Zoe Lofgren at the House Ethics Committee.
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Although Stenholm stopped short of calling for Condit's resignation, his choice of words was noteworthy because bringing discredit to Congress is listed as a violation of House rules in a manual issued by the House Ethics Committee.
No charges were filed against Jackson, but the House Ethics Committee decided to look into whether Jackson or an associate offered to raise a large amount of money for Blagojevich in exchange for Jackson getting the Senate seat.
At one point, it looked as though Republicans and Democrats would resolve their differences over the House Ethics Committee, but they've been unable to agree on staffing, and that means that the investigation of Majority Leader Tom DeLay is completely stalled.
Mr Jackson has also been under investigation by the House ethics committee over his dealings with imprisoned ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of trying to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama's former US Senate seat and other corruption charges.
The Senate Ethics Committee decided to stick with the spirit of the law that senators originally intended, but the House Ethics Committee went with the letter of the law, which included the loophole not requiring spouses and children to report financial transactions in a timely fashion.
Jackson's illness comes as the House Ethics Committee is examining allegations that in 2008, he or one of his associates offered to raise money for then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for Jackson being appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after he was elected president.
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