Forbes: House Ethics Panel to Subpoena Documents [View All]

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Things are beginning to move on the House investigation.

The House ethics committee approved four dozen subpoenas for documents and testimony Thursday, launching an investigation of a congressional page sex scandal that has imperiled Republican prospects in next month's elections.

The committee's chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., said a newly formed subcommittee's investigation "will go wherever our evidence leads us."

Asked if embattled House speaker Dennis Hastert was among those subpoenaed, Hastings would not comment.

"We are looking at weeks, not months," said the committee's senior Democrat, Rep. Howard Berman of California.

A House GOP official said that Hastert, fighting to save his job, will take responsibility for the unfolding scandal but insist that he will stay on as leader of House Republicans at a news conference scheduled later in Batavia, Ill.
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House Ethics Panel to Subpoena Documents