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.