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Ethics Tactics Roil the House

GOP Contends Rules Violated

By Jennifer Yachnin and Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff
March 13, 2008, Midnight

House Republicans, furious with what they said were Democrats’ high-handed tactics used to pass an ethics bill, on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the parliamentary maneuvers and raised the specter of sidelining the newly created independent ethics office.

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