(House Minority Whip Steny) Hoyer backs Pelosi, smacks Rep. Jefferson

[sabra]

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/060706/news4.html

Hoyer backs Pelosi, smacks Rep. Jefferson

The chances that Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) will keep his seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee grew slimmer yesterday as House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) issued a stinging assessment of the embattled Louisianan’s legal situation.

“He sits on a tax-writing committee, and he had $90,000 found in his freezer. I think he’s got a tax problem if nothing else,” Hoyer said, responding to reporters’ questions about whether Democrats would seek to oust Jefferson forcibly from the panel even though he has yet to be charged with a crime.

Jefferson pointedly declined a recent request from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for him to step down, reasserting his innocence and implying that she should ask the same of Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) who has faced ethics questions about earmarks he obtained on the Appropriations Committee.

“If members are to be treated equally, I think Mr. Mollohan has an appropriations problem,” a Democratic aide sympathetic to Jefferson fumed.

[Greeby]

1. Umm hello, Jefferson, you jackass

Mollohan has already voluntarily stepped down from the committee

[rodeodance]

2. past time Hoyer!