Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a 10-month, $1.5 million investigation, the committee of six Democrats and six Republicans voted unanimously to issue a report finding "reason to believe" Wright had run afoul of House rules requiring reporting of gifts, barring acceptance of gifts from persons with a direct interest in legislation and limiting outside earned income...
...know in my heart I have not violated any of the rules of that institution," Wright said in a speech to a labor meeting shortly after the ethics report was released...
According to records of internal committee votes released along with the report of the panel's special outside counsel, Democrats Chester Atkins of Massachusetts and Bernard Dwyer of New Jersey joined the committee's six Republicans for an eight to four margin on that issue...
...Wright's lawyer, William C. Oldaker, called that "doublespeak" and said "it's one of the most outra geous readings of legislative history" he has seen. Overall, the report contains "a lot of noise, a lot of clamoring, but very little substance," he said...
Other matters before the committee were more clear cut. The panel voted unanimously that there was reason to believe Wright failed to report as gifts the use of a car and Fort Worth condominium he and his wife received from Mallick. Committee members voted 10-2 that Mrs Wright's $18,000-a-year salary from a Mallick-Wright company should also be characterized as a gift, saying she did little or nothing to earn the money...