{"id":7293,"date":"2006-05-02T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2006-05-02T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:46:06","slug":"pelosi-asks-for-investigation-into-alleged-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/pelosi-asks-for-investigation-into-alleged-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi asks for investigation into alleged prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the way on the list of &#8220;things that will never happen,&#8221; Nancy [tag]Pelosi[\/tag] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/51_115\/news\/13090-1.html\">suggested yesterday<\/a> that House Speaker Dennis [tag]Hastert[\/tag] help launch an ethics committee [tag]investigation[\/tag] into whether two defense contractors supplied Duke Cunningham and other lawmakers with [tag]prostitutes[\/tag].<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing media reports, Pelosi wrote to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to urge the House&#8217;s top Republican to join her in introducing a bipartisan resolution that directs the ethics panel to look into the allegations, notwithstanding an ongoing criminal probe by the Justice Department into Cunningham&#8217;s activities. Traditionally, the ethics committee has avoided becoming involved in any matter in which DOJ has already begun a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Speaker, these disclosures, along with other indictments and allegations of unethical behavior, demand strong action by congressional leaders to uphold the integrity of the House,&#8221; Pelosi wrote in her letter to Hastert. &#8220;Since these new charges uniquely affect the House of Representatives, I believe that, regardless of what action may be taken in the [Justice Department] criminal investigation, the House must act.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi recommended that she and Hastert bring a &#8220;bipartisan resolution&#8221; to the floor, which would direct the House [tag]Ethics Committee[\/tag] to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Hastert&#8217;s office is not fond of the idea, saying that Ethics Committee should not receive orders from the leadership on which controversies spark formal inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s kind of amusing to see Pelosi exploit the latest GOP flap. Republicans have been trying to shake the &#8220;culture of corruption&#8221; line for a while, but possible [tag]prostitution[\/tag] adds a whole new level of embarrassment for the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the way on the list of &#8220;things that will never happen,&#8221; Nancy [tag]Pelosi[\/tag] suggested yesterday that House Speaker Dennis [tag]Hastert[\/tag] help launch an ethics committee [tag]investigation[\/tag] into whether two defense contractors supplied Duke Cunningham and other lawmakers with [tag]prostitutes[\/tag]. Citing media reports, Pelosi wrote to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to urge the House&#8217;s top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}