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From: Doug R	3/12/2005 7:50:49 PM
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repugs game the system so they can more easily get away with anything: The House GOP leadership [...] replaced the chairman of the ethics committee, Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), and appointed three new members to the 10-member panel, which is equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. The new members were seen as loyal to DeLay and the House's other Republican leaders. At the same time, the House leadership rewrote the committee's rules, which were passed on a party-line vote in January. The new rules allow the committee to launch an investigation only with the consent of a majority of its members — meaning a lawmaker would have to cross party lines to investigate a member of his own party. The new rules also limit the committee to 45 days to decide whether a complaint warrants investigation, and allows it to let the complaint die by taking no action. That change, Mollohan said, "means that in tough cases, all members would have to do is sit on their hands for 45 days, then allow a case to be dismissed" without having to vote on it, as the previous rules required. latimes.com

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