Democrats Call For Ethics Investigation Into John Conyers
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Nov 21, 2017
Update: Despite one anonymous staffer’s claim that Conyers is “untouchable” because of his longstanding status as a civil-rights icon who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., senior Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are calling for an ethics probe into the Dean of the House following a report revealed that staffers have accused the senior lawmaker of sexual harassment.
Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the second and third most-senior Democrats on the powerful committee said early that the House Ethics Committee should investigate the validity of the BuzzFeed News report published late Monday night.
“The reports about Congressman Conyers are as serious as they get. The Committee on Ethics should take up this matter immediately with a goal of promptly assessing the validity of the news account. This reported behavior cannot be tolerated in the House of Representatives or anywhere else,” Lofgren said in a statement Tuesday morning, the Hill.
Nadler issued a statement around the same time calling the allegations against Conyers “extremely serious and deeply troubling.”
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