Nancy Pelosi’s worried about ethics, again, sort of
Posted by Moonage on 17 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Ethics, Politics
Here’s the headline:
Problem is, this is the text:
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded an ethics investigation Thursday into the passage of deficit-reduction legislation that President Bush recently signed, a new twist in an episode of Capitol intrigue that blends election-year politics and questions of constitutional law.
“Republican leaders chose to ignore House rules, precedent and even the Constitution itself” in sending the politically charged measure to the White House, said Pelosi, D-Calif.
She said the legislation was defective because it had cleared the two houses in different forms, and added that Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., “knew full well this was an invalid bill.”
Now, what happened here was a clerk mis-typed “13″ for “36″ in one version. The typo was corrected and worked out between the two chambers. The final bill signed reflected the original version of the bill. There really is nothing here to investigate as it was caught at the time and corrected. She’s saying the House should re-vote on it since it got altered at some point and therefore was not the same thing the Senate voted on. It doesn’t change anything, it just should be voted on again for the sake of saying it was voted on again.
I’m still waiting for Nancy Pelosi to call for an ethics investigation into William Jefferson.
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