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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Lanya on October 04, 2006, 03:52:10 PM

Title: When the House could clean itself
Post by: Lanya on October 04, 2006, 03:52:10 PM

When the House could clean itself
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301109.html
Good article by Joseph Califano re: the 1980s page sex scandal and the investigation the House undertook.

Title: Re: When the House could clean itself
Post by: Amianthus on October 04, 2006, 09:03:39 PM

Finally got around to reading the linked article.

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Compare the current situation with the way Speaker Tip O'Neill and the House handled the last scandal involving sexual misconduct with pages, in the summer of 1982.

Funny. It took a complaint by Republicans for Tip to begin an investigation. And then, they had to go back nearly 10 years to investigate some of the charges, because they had swept stuff under the rug for that long.