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Congressman, here are some of the late night memories inspired by his misadventures. >> new york democratic congressman eric massa announced he was resigning from congress due to health reasons. what health reasons? well, rumors began to circulate that he had testicular -- um, not cancer. what is it when you're not a doctor but you try to check out other people's balls? [ laughter ] >> oh, groping. >> so let's try to capture this image in our minds. congressman in his office in washington, a staffer tickling him -- [ laughter ] >> it turns out massa was accused of sexually harassing a male sta...

After foley resigned they found republican leadership was "willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of foley's conduct with respect to house pages. speaker pelosi told rachel maddow she was in favor of referring the case to the ethics committee and detailed the timeline when her office found out massa was a problem. >> when was your office first told about concerns about his behavior? >> well, any report to our office was in february there was an allegation against him and at the same time it was referred to the ethics committee and that was the appropriate route. i'm now finding out t...

To abc's report. after foley resigned, the house ethics committee found that republican leadership was, quote, willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of foley's conduct with respect to house pages. today, speaker pelosi told rachel maddow that she was in favor of referring the case to the ethics committee. and she detailed the timeline of when her office found out massa was a problem. >> when was your office first told about concerns about his behavior? >> the push to our office was in february that there was an allegation against him, and at the same time it was referred to the ethi...

2006. republican leadership including john boehner were aware there was a problem six months prior to abc's report. after foley resigned the house ethics committee found that republican leadership was, quote, willfully ignorant of the potential consequences of foley's conduct with respect to house pages. today speaker pelosi told rachel maddow she was in favor of referring the case to the ethics committee and detailed the timeline of when her office found out massa was a problem. >> when was your office first told about concerns about his behavior? >> well, any report to our office was in febr...

>> reporter: not since rod blagojevich. >> did they push out massa so obama care can passa. >> the guy is one taco short of a happy meal. >> lost a couple of wheels off the back car. >> reporter: here we go with some of massa's top ticklers. you can't say the guy hasn't owned up to things. >> i owned this miss behavior. >> reporter: the question is what he is owning up to. >> i own this. >> reporter: how can you not appreciate a guy who brings tickling into the national conversation. >> yeah, i did. i tickled him until he couldn't breathe. >> not only did i grope him but tickled him until he c...