Did (GOP) Cover Up Foley Scandal? GOP..Calls 'Wash Post' to Change story [View All]

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Did Republicans Cover Up Foley Scandal? GOP Leader Calls 'Wash Post' to Change Story

By E&P Staff and The Associated Press

Published: September 30, 2006 10:30 AM ET

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The Washington Post carried this remarkable passage today: "House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of inappropriate 'contact' between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

"Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

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Near midnight, the Republicans engineered a vote to let the House ethics committee decide whether an investigation is needed.

-- Among the Republican explanations during the night:
The congressional sponsor of the page, Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., said he was asked by the youth's parents not to pursue the matter, so he dropped it.

-- Alexander said that before deciding to end his involvement, he passed on what he knew to the chairman of the House Republican campaign organization, Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y. Reynolds' spokesman, Carl Forti, said the campaign chairman also took no action in deference to the parents' wishes.

--Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the Page Board that oversees the congressional work-study program for high schoolers, said he did investigate but Foley falsely assured him he was only mentoring the boy. Pages are high school students who attend classes under congressional supervision and work as messengers.

--The spokesman for Speaker, Ron Bonjean, said the top House Republican had not known about the allegations. Shimkus said he learned about them in late 2005.

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