The chairman of the House Ethics Committee said the panel, under pressure to release details of its investigation of attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, was unable to come to an agreement to disclose what it had found.
“There was not an agreement by the committee to release the report,” Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), chairman of the panel, told reporters Wednesday as he left a committee meeting that lasted for several hours.
But the top-ranking Democrat on the committee, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, took issue with Guest’s characterization.
Wild said it was not true that the committee had agreed not to release the report — a slightly different proposition than what Guest had stated. Instead, she said there was a vote on the issue, and the panel split evenly along party lines. Because the panel is a rare one in Congress that is split evenly along party lines, a vote along partisan lines did not carry the needed majority of the…
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