Democrats forced votes to compel the Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Gaetz, a top Trump ally. Republicans responded by voting to return the matter to the panel, ending the fight over the report’s release for now. No public release date has been set.
Democrats forced votes to compel the Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Gaetz , a top Trump ally. Republicans sent the matter back to the panel.
Before Thanksgiving, on Nov. 20, the 10-member Ethics panel deadlocked over publishing the report into Gaetz, whom Trump announced as his pick to lead the Justice Department on Nov. 13, the same day Gaetz resigned from Congress. But Republicans thwarted the resolutions by voting to send them to the Ethics panel. The House voted 206 to 198 to refer the Casten resolution to the committee; just one Republican, Rep. Tom McClintock, of California, sided with Democrats and voted no.
But Republicans did not want the report released, arguing that the Ethics Committee only has jurisdiction over sitting members of Congress — not ex-members., pressing the Ethics Committee to release a report from an outside counsel about its investigation of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. But the House rejected the resolution in a vote on the floor.
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