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Members who do engage ethically. >> most of them do, absolutely. >> most do but several don't like this idea of an independent agency monitoring them on ethics issues. i think leo is right. it wasn't just a jack abramoff issue but the paid fein the abrd 21 officials convicted of bribery and charges an the ethics committee sat on the sidelines during the process. it was a big embarrassment to the committee. to underscore leo's point, any inspector the general has to have three things, the ability to compel testimony, independence, independence in terms of when to initiate an investigation, refe...

Election day on the conservative web site the daily caller alleging that senator menendez traveled to the dominican republic and there engaged in, again, allegedly, in sex with underaged prostitutes. the committee for responsibility and ethics in washington, otherwise known as crew, which has a pretty good track record on ethics issues has formally asked the fbi and the department of justice to investigate whether or not senator menendez did indeed engage in sex tourism in the dominican republic. whether, information in fact he he also allegedly made use of prostitutes in florida. and violated...

Where we have reports that senator -- former senator from alaska, ted stevens is on that plane. a lot of coverage of that in a second. this is unusual. we went to the floor of the house of representatives, because we were not expecting congressman charlie rangel of new york to make the speech that you just heard. it's been going on for over 20 minutes right now. i want to go to brianna keilar at the capitol, because she was listening to it, as well. this was -- congress is back in session to deal with the $26 billion bill, brianna, to deal with medicaid and teachers -- shortfalls that states h...

Welcome back to "hardball." democrats promised to drain the swamp in congress when they gained control in 2006. now the party faces two ethics trials for veteran house members. is this a problem for the midterm elections? obviously it is. democratic congressman of pennsylvania is a member of the appropriations committee and also chairs the congressional urban caucus. congressman, thank you for joining us. this is a tricky topic. i don't know anyone who wants to talk about it. least of all people who know charlie rangel. nobody likes ethics issues, i don't think. but here's the president, and i...

Democrats promised to drain the swamp in congress when they gained control in 2006. now the party faces two ethics trials for veteran house members. is this a problem for the midterm elections? obviously it is. democratic congressman of pennsylvania is a member of the appropriations committee and also chairs the congressional urban congress. congressman, thank you for joining us. this is a tricky topic. i don't know anyone who wants to talk about it. least of all people who know charlie rangel. nobody likes ethics issues, i don't think. but here's the president, and i know you must have been s...