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The senate ethics committee responded with a letter of admonition. you may remember the larry craig sex sting. that earned senator larry craig a public letter of admonition of his own. you get the picture. they traffic in public letters of admonition. that's what they did. except today, they did not do that. today the senate ethic's committee released a 68-page report on their investigation into the now former senator john ensign of nevada, along with referrals for prosecution to the department of justice and the federal election commission. they also did this. >> ethics committee rules make c...

Ethics committee to decide. i used to serve on the ethics committee. i think it would be appropriate for them to make a final report. that's certainly provided for in the ethics committee rules. >> all right. we're going to leave it there. senators, thank you both very much for being here. coming up, tough choices on taxes, spending and entitlement reform. will washington bridge the partisan divide and find room for compromise? plus, high unemployment and soaring gas prices and americans pessimistic about the future. our "political roundtable" examines what it means for 2012, including a p...

Comment. >> was it appropriate for him to resign? >> like i said, i don't have the -- i don't know the basis under which he resigned and i'm not privy to that, so that's a decision he made. and what he stated was best for his family. >> senator conrad, do you think it's appropriate for the ethics committee to now make public its findings? >> you know, that's for the ethics committee to decide. i used to serve on the ethics committee. i think it would be appropriate for them to make a final report. that's certainly provided for in the ethics committee rules. >> all right. we're going to leave i...

Did resign because he was under threat of expulsion, which as you said earlier is so rare. and that certainly is what we were calling for all along, that senator ensign should be expelled. but i think the report also highlights how much the department of justice has fallen down here. earlier, just a few months ago, the department of justice declined to prosecute mr. ensign, instead focusing only on doug hampton, his former aide, for violating the lobbying ban. but now we see the ethics committee sending the matter back to justice, and maybe the justice department will be embarrassed enough to ...

Admonition. you may remember the larry craig sex sting. that earned senator larry craig a public letter of admonition of his own. you get the picture. they traffic in public letters of admonition. that's what they did. except today, they did not do that. today the senate ethic's committee released a 68-page report on their investigation into the now former senator john ensign of nevada, along with referrals for prosecution to the department of justice and the federal election commission. they also did this. >> ethics committee rules make clear that whenever its members have, quote, reason to b...