Hoyer Defends Symbolic Move on Ethics Probe of Democrats

June 4, 2009

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer defended a Wednesday effort in the House to urge the ethics committee to take action regarding an ongoing federal investigation into a defunct lobbying firm and at least one senior House Democrat. ”

I think it’s adequate if the ethics committee acts, which I have every confidence they will,” Hoyer told reporters today at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “We’ll see in 45 days.”

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(Susan Davis, “Hoyer Defends Symbolic Move on Ethics Probe of Democrats,” The Wall Street Journal’s “Washington Wire” blog, 6/04/09)