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Transcript: Analysis: House Ethics Committee deadlocked over ethics rules changes
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- April 13, 2005
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MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
04-13-2005
Analysis: House Ethics Committee deadlocked over ethics rules changes
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
The House Ethics Committee met today for the first time since a major rules change. Republicans changed the rules to make it more difficult to bring action against a lawmaker accused of ethics violations. Democrats on the committee said it shouldn't meet until the rules revert to where they were before the allies of embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay changed them. NPR's Andrea Seabrook joins us from Capitol Hill.
Andrea, this House Ethics meeting is now over. What happened?
ANDREA SEABROOK ...