House rejects Democratic efforts to force release of Matt Gaetz ethics report
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The House has shut down Democrats’ efforts to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Matt Gaetz may be done with the House of Representatives, but his former colleagues aren’t through with him yet.

Lawmakers on Thursday are expected to decide the fate of the long-awaited House ethics report into sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz, with many pressing for its release even though the Florida Republican has left Congress and withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. Gaetz denies the allegations.

The bipartisan committee planned to vote in the afternoon on whether to make public the findings of their yearslong inquiry. If they decide against that disclosure, Democrats are poised to force votes on the House floor requiring the committee to publish the full report.

  • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    10 days ago

    The fact that there are people who don’t want to release it means it’s pretty damning. You don’t try to bury reports that imply your party member is innocent.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      27·
      10 days ago

      It shouldn’t matter it is a scumbag or not. Either the report exonerates him, or he wasn’t acting ethically which we should know about. Either way there should be no discussion whether or should be released or not.

      The fact that this is debated, says that there major ethical issues among people deciding about it.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        10 days ago

        I look at it this way: this was work done by a governing body, who were elected to perform the work. This wasn’t an FBI criminal investigation. It was a legislative ethics investigation on another legislator.

        There is no earthly reason this should not be available to the public, no matter how innocent the report is.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      No. It would be irony for an ethics committee to be the subject of an ethics investigation. For a scumbag, it’s just expected.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      10 days ago

      The tax payer dollars spent on compiling the report weren’t wasted.

      The cost in both salaries and hours of a Congress that’s probably about to adjourn for the year debating the release that should have happened the moment it was completed, on the other hand…

  • HorreC@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 days ago

    You wanna be the party of law and order. Then this is just part of the order. The law part can only come after.