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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (742853)	6/16/2006 2:01:30 PM
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House Boots Jefferson From Committee By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 16, 2006 Filed at 12:43 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House stripped Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of his committee seat on Friday in an unprecedented action against a lawmaker ensnared in scandal, but not under indictment. The FBI claims that it videotaped the Louisiana Democrat last summer taking $100,000 in bribe money and that agents later found $90,000 of the funds stashed in a freezer in his home. A former aid to the congressman and a businessman who admitted paying bribes to the lawmaker have pleaded guilty in the probe. The issue has left many lawmakers torn. Several black lawmakers had appealed privately to Jefferson, who is black, to step aside from the committee voluntarily. The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina, said after the Democrats' vote that by taking the action they did, fellow Democrats chose ''political expediency'' or some other unacceptable factor over precedent. ''Even at the end of the meeting, we don't know what the standard has been,'' he said.