Cole: NRCC Debt Neared $19 Million

• By Lauren W. Whittington
• Roll Call Staff
• March 17, 2008, Midnight

As the National Republican Congressional Committee last week released the first details of the accounting scandal involving former Treasurer Christopher Ward, the committee’s top official also asserted for the first time that the debt left over from the 2006 elections was actually in the range of $19 million.