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To: SeachRE who wrote (165629)	4/21/2010 11:41:44 AM
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Ed Schultz Excoriates Democrat Tea Partier: ‘You’re Too Stupid to Read’ "Get this idiot off my radio show!" breitbart.tv

To: SeachRE who wrote (165629)	4/21/2010 8:21:55 PM
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Hoyer, Pelosi aides questioned in ethics case AP - Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:03:57 PM By LARRY MARGASAK . Photo By AP (107) .Congressional investigators have questioned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and aides to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as part of a probe into whether top Democrats covered up information that ex-Rep. Eric Massa sexually harassed male employees. The FBI has also been drawn into the Massa case, apparently by reports last weekend about a $40,000 check from the former congressman's campaign fund to his former chief of staff, who has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Massa, said an attorney involved in the case. The House Ethics Committee formally opened its investigation on Wednesday. A four-member panel of the evenly divided committee questioned Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat's office said. In February, Hoyer's staff learned of the allegations against Massa, and Hoyer demanded that Massa's aides take them to the ethics panel. Five months earlier, Massa's chief of staff met with an aide to Pelosi to complain about the conduct of Massa, D-N.Y. Pelosi aides have insisted that those discussions did not include the sexual harassment allegations. "The speaker has made herself available to meet with ethics committee at their earliest convenience," said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Pelosi. Elshami said members of Pelosi's staff have already met with and fully cooperated with the committee. Massa, 50, resigned from the House last month after the sexual harassment allegations surfaced. The ethics committee cannot investigate former members, but it can look into what others did -- or did not do -- with knowledge of Massa's conduct. Debra Katz, a lawyer for a former Massa staffer who last month filed a sexual harassment complaint against Massa, said Wednesday she had been contacted by the FBI's public corruption unit. Katz said the FBI asked that her client, whom she refused to identify, preserve all documents that he had in his possession involving the ex-congressman. She said the FBI is not investigating the sexual harassment complaint. "I presume their focus is on issues raised over the weekend," Katz said. Massa's campaign cut a check for $40,000 to his chief of staff, Joe Racalto, who also has filed a sexual harassment complaint against Massa. The unidentified staffer alleged in the March 23 complaint that Massa regularly groped him, propositioned him and made lewd remarks to him and other staffers, Katz said. Aggressive sexual overtures by Massa were routine in the freshman lawmaker's congressional office, Katz said. They began in early 2009 shortly after Massa took office and escalated over time, particularly after Massa had been drinking, she said.