DeLay Faces Lengthy Inquiry

[Judi Lynn]

April 29, 2005


THE NATION
DeLay Faces Lengthy Inquiry
Experts say the restored House ethics panel is certain to examine the majority leader's foreign trips, and the stakes will be high for both sides.


By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — After months of published reports raising questions about his overseas travels, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) says he is looking forward to proving his innocence to a revived House ethics committee.

But even if the panel begins immediately, it is expected to take six months to a year to complete an investigation into DeLay's conduct — and there is no guarantee that either the House majority leader or the committee will emerge unscathed, legal experts say.

"In this case, the stakes are particularly high, both for Mr. DeLay, given his history of ethics lapses, and for this committee," said Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who specializes in legal and government ethics.

She says the public will want to know this: "Will the committee be able to act in a bipartisan manner in the way that it has in the past?"
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[punpirate]

1. If there were any justice in this country...

... that headline should read, "DeLay Faces Lengthy Jail Term."

[unhappycamper]

2. I guess I could put up with a lengthy DeLay

as long as there was a new Revelation every other day. Tommie boy deserves the attention.

[AlinPA]

3. With the Rpigs in control, any "investigation" would go nowhere. With

Melissa Hart (who got $15000 from DeLay) as the "leader" of the committee, nothing will happen; Delay may be in the news for a few weeks, but he will be reelected by the republicans in Sugarland in '06.

[MontageOfFreedom]

6. She's under investigation too....

Doubt it will end up pretty, republicans and democrats both are intent on fully investigating him this time.

http://houseofscandal.org

[struggle4progress]

4. This is heartbreaking.

:D

[bemildred]

5. Stall, stall, stall. Lying pricks. nt

[icymist]

7. I hope this gets investigated to the fullest!

Not only do we all need to get the corrupt Congressman into prison, but all the corporate interests that have bought their way into Congress, we need to know who they all are. They should all be put together into the same prison for destroying Democracy in our great country. They are all traitors.

[Jdude]

9. Traitors indeed!

Well put.

[PurityOfEssence]

8. "...The insolence of office, the law's delay..."

Great. Maybe Fitzgerald will finish his Plame investigation by the end of the decade, and maybe DeLay's assorted criminalites will be tidied up after that.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. The final nail will be Hammered in

When the lapdogs in the MSM have the stones to re-examine his trip to Saipan, and the subsequent killing of the sweatshop/sex trade legislation. The stench from should be enough to have even his closest sychophants finally distance themselves from this maniac.

What does DeLouse have on them? You really have to wonder.

[tyedyeto]

11. Will it take so looong that......

the public will have forgotten why the inquiry started in the first place. Seems to happen all the time....stall tactics.