Reaction to Proposal to Investigate (Dem's - "charade", "nonstarter")

[Pirate Smile]

Reaction to Proposal to Investigate DeLay
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 20, 2005; 7:21 PM

Comments on a proposal by House ethics committee Chairman Doc Hastings, D-Wash. to begin an investigation of Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

DeLay: "I've sent letters to the committee asking to appear before the chairman and ranking member to discuss matters. And for more than a month I've said I hope for a fair process that will afford me the opportunity to get the facts out and set the record straight. I welcome the opportunity to address this with the committee."

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House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md.: "This proposal on the ethics process by the Republican leadership is a charade and an absolute nonstarter with Democrats, who reject it out of hand. It is a calculated attempt to divert attention from the fact that the Republican majority has neutered the ethics committee in the House by imposing partisan rules that hamstring any meaningful inquiry."

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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.: "Tom is ready to talk to people and clear himself."

"As long as they (Democrats) can keep somebody dangling out there like they have with Tom DeLay they take great glee in that."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5973-2005Apr20.html

[AndyTiedye]

1. He Even Looks Like a Big Fat Bug

this sig's for you Tom Delay:

[maddezmom]

2. kick

as usual the GOP playing games about ethics...:eyes:

[democrat in Tallahassee]

3. then hold a full-fledged news conference and answere all questions

without a lawyer, bug man, if you are so innocent