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To: Sully- who wrote (33454)	3/11/2010 1:12:42 PM
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GOP wants Eric Massa investigation reopened By JOHN BRESNAHAN & JONATHAN ALLEN \| 3/11/10 12:12 PM EST House Minority Leader John Boehner and other top Republicans will offer a resolution calling on the ethics committee to reopen its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.). "The American people expect that their members of Congress are held to the highest ethical standards," Boehner told reporters on Thursday. Boehner said there are "unanswered questions that have been raised" about the handling of the Massa case by Democrats. POLITICO reported on Wednesday night the Massa's chief of staff, Joe Racalto, contacted an aide in Pelosi's office back in October to discuss problems with Massa's behavior. This was four months before another Massa aide went to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office (D-Md.) with a specific harassment allegation against Massa. Massa resigned from the House on Monday following allegations that he sexually harassed multiple staffers, including alleged "groping" incidents. Massa later publicly admitted to improper behavior but said it wasn't sexually motivated. The ethics committee began an investigation into Massa's conduct but decided to end it on Wednesday following Massa's resignation. Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) said Democratic leaders should be forced to testify under oath about what they knew and when they knew it, as Republican leaders did in the Mark Foley affair in 2006. He said Pelosi called the Foley situation "abhorrent" and pressed for an investigation. "The same standard should apply," Cantor insisted. "I think the American people expect more," he said, noting that Pelosi "promised more." The GOP resolution calls for a full investigation of "which House Democratic leaders and members of their respective staffs had knowledge prior to March 3" of allegations against Massa and what actions each person with knowledge took; establishment of an investigative subcommittee within 10 days; requires full cooperation by members and staff and preservation of records; instructs that the Chief Administrative Officer of the House to ensure no destruction or deletion of electronic records, including texts, emails and voicemails; and calls for a final report by the ethics committee to be issued no later than June 30. Republicans stated that "the possibility House Democratic leaders may have failed to immediately confront Rep. Massa about allegations of sexual harassment may have exposed employees and interns of Rep. Massa to continued harassment." GOP leaders added that the Massa incident, and the resulting media uproar since POLITICO first reported on the harassment allegations on March 3, "have held the House up to public ridicule." politico.com