Ethics Complaints Sheathed

• By Jennifer Yachnin
• Roll Call Staff
• April 30, 2008, Midnight

Even though both Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently called for the ethics committee to investigate members of the other’s party — fighting words by any standard — neither took the next step of triggering an investigation, effectively pulling their punches.