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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The House Ethics Committee indicated it would extend the contract of an independent counsel investigating the bungled probe of Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it was investigating whether Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif., misused her staff for political purposes.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it lifted its hold on its probe of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who came under the cloud of the Rod Blagojevich case.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Incoming U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says he has chosen an ethics committee veteran to head the panel.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby was re-elected and GOP nominee Robert Bentley won the governorship in Alabama Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- House Republicans have called on Democrats to schedule ethics trials for Reps. Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters before the Nov. 2 elections.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The House Ethics Committee has begun its investigation of U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, two months after the New York Democrat requested a probe.
LOS ANGELES, March 13 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman said Tuesday its KC-45A tanker program would create 48,000 new U.S. jobs.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is being punished by GOP leaders for his unsuccessful crusade against "pork" spending, watchdog groups say.
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