Vote Illustrates House Stalemate Over Ethics

A resolution against the panel's chair is rejected on a party-line vote. The House still has no means to investigate DeLay's travels or to police itself.

SOURCE: Mary Curtius // The Los Angeles Times

10 Jun 2005 // A House vote Thursday highlighted the continuing paralysis of the chamber's ethics committee, six weeks after lawmakers thought they had ended an impasse that was keeping the panel from opening an investigation focusing on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas).

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