Reply #29: Thanks! Here's some more. The Dem weathered the storm.

[MissMarple]

How times have changed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Page_sex_scandal

"On July 14, 1983, the House Ethics Committee concluded that U.S. Rep. Dan Crane (R-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) had engaged in relationships with minors. The minors in question were 17-year-old congressional pages. In Crane's case, it was a 1980 relationship with a female page and in Studds's case, it was a 1973 relationship with a male page. Both representatives immediately pleaded guilty to the charges and the committee decided to simply reprimand the two. However, U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) demanded their expulsion. On July 20, the House voted for censure, the first time that censure had been imposed for sexual misconduct. Crane, who tearfully apologized for his transgression, lost his bid for reelection in 1984. Studds, however, refused to apologize (even calling a press conference with the former page, in which both stated that they were consenting adults at the time of the relationship in 1973 and that it was therefore not the business of others to censure them for what they considered their private relationship), and he continued to be reelected until his retirement in 1996."