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The political conversation here last week was, understandably, dominated by the city council elections.

A coalition of over 100 environmental, public health, labor, faith-based and community groups known as the Blue-Green Coalition applauded Rep.

A panel that investigates allegations of unethical behavior by members of Congress has cleared U.S. Rep.

By Paul Kane The ethics committee is not investigating Rep. Jane Harman , whose conversation with an Israeli operative four years ago drew scrutiny from the Justice Department and for a time from the committee.

The House ethics committee on Thursday cleared Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, of any wrongdoing for his role in a land deal involving the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Jane Harman is among more than two dozen lawmakers named in the report. It was an embarrassing breach from one of the most secretive committees on Capitol Hill: A House ethics staffer posted a confidential report where the public could access it, reports CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson .

A A A' Internal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

Rep. Norm Dicks said Friday that he is confident that he will be exonerated by ethics investigators after a leaked preliminary report listed him as one of seven members of the defense appropriations subcommittee who are under scrutiny for their relationships with a once-powerful lobbying firm.

National Democrats are a long way from those heady days in 2006 when U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, promised to "drain the swamp" of corruption on Capitol Hill if voters gave them control of Congress.

Internal investigations into the conduct of more than two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives were exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

This story has been black-listed by the media. It can be found at politico.com but if you do a search on "PMA Group" or "Ethics Leak PMA Group" you will find few stories in the news... Citing the revelation of an ethics review of senior defense appropriators, a leading House earmark critic has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to eliminate more than ...

The U.S. House ethics panel's weekly summary posted on a public network shows more than 25 Democrats and seven Republicans were targets of ethics reviews.

The House ethics committee said Thursday it is investigating whether California Rep.

Seven members of a powerful subcommittee that was the subject of a recent Center investigation are now being scrutinized by the House ethics committee, according to The Washington Post .

Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.

Oct. 30: A leaked document obtained by The Washington Post shows that 30 members of Congress have been under scrutiny in recent months for possible ethics violations.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions said yesterday that the GOP would "welcome" Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman into its ranks.

It's safe to say that Thursday was an eminently bad da y for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat.

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo , whose ties to a defense lobbying company are being examined by congressional ethics investigators, says she's cooperating with the probe and expects to be vindicated.

Leaked documents that surfaced this week reveal that the U.S. Justice Department asked the House Ethics Committee last summer to back off its investigation of U.S. Rep.