No ethics complaint has been filed against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), whose lobbyist-funded junkets became talk of the town after spreads in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Nor has a complaint been lodged against Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA), whose house was recently raided by the FBI, or Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), who enjoyed a trip to a Scottish casino and floated a $100 bet alongside a gambling lobbyist to win some $32,000.
Ney’s press secretary said the congressman had been “lucky.”
Ethics groups on both sides agree. Their ire, which previously was focused largely on Republicans, has turned on Democrats; they say the party has failed to marry rhetoric with action. Democrats maintain they’ve worked to fix a “broken” ethics committee and are watching to see where the committee goes before taking action.
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