Yet another lapse of ethics for majority leader :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah

Yet another lapse of ethics for majority leader :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah: "Yet another lapse of ethics for majority leader

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The Washington Post
Feb. 5, 2005
We have, it seems, once again underestimated the speaker of the House and the lengths to which he is willing to go to neuter the ethics process and protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. When it looked in December as if Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. , was prepared to dump the inconveniently activist chairman of the House ethics committee, Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo., we published an editorial headlined 'Ousting the Umpire.' It turns out we didn't give the speaker enough credit for thinking big. On Wednesday -- and we're sure it was mere coincidence that it happened to be the day of the State of the Union address -- Hastert finally announced the new lineup for the ethics panel in the 109th Congress. Not only did he can Hefley, as expected; he also purged the two most recalcitrant -- we would say responsible -- other Republican committee members, Reps. Kenny "