GOP’s Fear of Losing Precludes Ethics War

• By Ben Pershing
• Roll Call Staff
• July 15, 2004, Midnight

Despite ominous predictions of a pending war coming from both sides of the aisle, no Republican has retaliated against Rep. Chris Bell (Texas) or any other Democrat in the month since the lame-duck lawmaker filed an ethics complaint against Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas).