House Speaker Dennis Hastert appeared today at the Ethics Panel investigating the congressional page scandal.
But the senior Democrat on the ethics panel, Rep. Howard Berman of California, defended his colleagues' work.
Mrs Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats met their junior partners on Sunday after the ethics panel had delivered its conclusions.
Assuming Weiner stays, the question now becomes whether the House ethics panel will heed calls for an investigation from top Democrats.
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But its executive director, Melanie Sloan, said she won't, only because the House ethics panel acts solely on complaints filed by members.
The ethics panel, co-chaired by Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Ed Pastor, D-Ariz.
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Could it be instead that he, you know, acknowledges when he knew about it, speaks openly about it, not just to the Senate ethics panel, not just to the FBI?
Last year the chairman had been Colorado Republican Joel Hefley, who with two other GOP members of the ethics panel voted to admonish DeLay on three separate charges of questionable conduct.
Then it became clear that Republican leaders knew of Foley's conduct at least several months before it became public, and the ethics panel probe was launched to determine who knew what when.
Rangel failed to pay taxes on a Dominican Republic villa for 17 years and, evidence before the U.S. Congressional Ethics Panel indicates, lied in claiming he was unaware of his own tax evasion.
The ethics panel has been examining allegations Jackson or one of his associates offered to raise funds for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
The penalty stemmed from the ethics committee's finding that Gingrich misled the panel during its investigation of ethics charges against him.
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.
While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from his earlier insistence that he did nothing wrong.
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.
Before becoming embroiled in the ethics case Rangel had chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, the influential panel that writes tax policy.
Ethics Committee Chairman Joel Hefley of Colorado said in December he thought it would be "appropriate" for the panel to look into the matter.
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