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...have missed it, but that dull, thudding sound in the political background over the weekend was Republicans pummeling Democrats on, of all things, corruption.That's because last Friday, the top-ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, West Virginia's Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down temporarily from that post over charges of - what else? - unethical behavior. And Republicans didn't miss this golden opportunity to pile...
...reason to be happy. Through April, Mollohan faced mounting allegations in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that he had routed as much as $250 million of federal money to nonprofits he set up, employees and contractors of which in turn funneled money to his campaigns. He had also been accused of underreporting real estate holdings on his personal financial disclosure forms. Mollohan has denied wrongdoing...
...staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position as co-director of the committee, to allow him to oversee it more closely. The other co-director would be a staffer from the office of Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the committee. But Mollohan, as well as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, has balked at this requirement, arguing the committee has always had a bi-partisan staff. House rules are not exactly clear on this point. The impasse has now lasted close to two months...
...protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden that Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the ethics committee, was still reading the resolution as he went to the House Rules Committee to testify in favor of it. It passed the House...
...Mollohan had better not lose: he's running unopposed. He succeeded his father in the seat in 1982, and works with Senator Robert Byrd to help get federal money to the state, including $1 million for the West Virginia High Technology Center Foundation and a new fbi fingerprinting center. A "Buy American" legislator, Mollohan is an energetic booster of local industry who, in theory, can't lose...