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Article: GOP Seeks Probe of Gonzalez Over Iraq Data
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- August 5, 1992
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House Republican leaders yesterday called for an ethics
investigation of Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.) for disclosing
classified information in his repeated monologues on the House floor
about the Bush administration's handling of Iraq prior to the
Persian Gulf War.
The resolution filed near the end of the day's session stops
short of making a formal ethics complaint against Gonzalez, chairman
of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, but
does accuse him of violating two House rules against improper
conduct and releasing information received at a closed committee
meeting. No House rule specifically bars a member from releasing
classified information.
In an ...