Word: committeee
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Frank is also suffering from an American obsession with sexual controversy. House Member Joseph P. McDade (R-Pa.), a powerful Republican on the Appropriations Committee, is now under fire for allegedly taking illegal contributions from a corrupt defense firm, and then channeling to the firm millions in taxpayer dollars.
Toll said that a recent decision by a Board of Regents committee against moving the law and social work schools away from the Baltimore campus has allowed Maryland to "move ahead."
Democratic National Chairman Ron Brown, in a breakfast meeting with reporters, acknowledged Frank was under pressure to resign but said the congressman was right to await the Ethics Committee inquiry.
"He's done what he should have done," Brown said. "The ethics committee ought to go forward. Pressure is building to resign. But we ought to let the quasi-judicial process go forward."
At Frank's own request, the House Ethics Committee is investigating his involvement with Stephen L. Gobie and Gobie's disputed claim that the congressman was aware he was operating a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. Frank has said he would await the ethics committee's...