Stark Faces Ethics Investigation

A senior Democratic lawmaker is currently facing an official investigation from the House ethics committee, the panel revealed last week.

Rep. Pete Stark (Calif.), the No. 2 Democrat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, will face an ethics probe for an undisclosed matter. The committee released a statement revealing the investigation late on Christmas Eve, a statement which went unnoticed until Tuesday.

The California lawmaker’s name surfaced earlier this year in a confidential ethics document leaked to the public that detailed investigations under way by both the OCE and the ethics panel.

Read more: (Michael O’Brien and Susan Crabtree, “Stark Faces Ethics Investigation,” The Hill, 12/29/09)