The House Ethics Panel will be meeting Wednesday as pressure mounts from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to not release the details of its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Gaetz was nominated last week by President-elect Donald Trump to be attorney general. Senators weighing whether to confirm Gaetz have said they want to see the report, which included an investigation into whether he had a sexual relationship with a minor.”I’m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House,” Johnson said last week. “And I think that would be a terrible precedent to set.”
Gaetz resigned following his nomination, ending the investigation against him. On the Sunday talk shows, Johnson expressed his support for Gaetz’s nomination.
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