Guest guest Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 CREW RELEASES NEW REPORT -- REVEALS THE MOST TAINTED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: <http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=79>http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=79 BEYOND DELAY: THE 13 MOST CORRUPT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS --New Website Launches at Noon – <http://www.beyonddelay.org>www.beyonddelay.org Details:<http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/BeyondDeLayReportFinal2.pdf>http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/BeyondDeLayReportFinal2.pdf Washington, DC -- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics inWashington (CREW) released a 93-page report entitled Beyond DeLay: The 13Most Corrupt Members of Congress, documenting the egregious, unethical andpossibly illegal activities of the most tainted Members of Congress. Forthe first time, CREW has compiled and analyzed all these members’transgressions in tandem with the federal laws and congressional rules theymay have violated. CREW has also launched a new website, www.beyonddelay.org, which detailsthe tainted thirteen’s violations and encourages visitors, through thewebsite, to contact their member of Congress to ask for an investigation ofthese members. The 13 members are: -- Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) -- Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)-- Rep. Tom Feeney(R-FL)-- Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) -- Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) -- Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) -- Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)-- Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) -- Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) -- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) -- Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) -- Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) -- Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) “CREW was compelled to research and release a report on these corruptmembers because the ethics committees in both the House and Senate arecompletely inert," Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today."Americans send their representatives to Washington to make laws, not tobreak them. We want to be clear with our report Beyond DeLay, that no one,not even Members of Congress are above the law." Over the past year, the issue of Congressional ethics has taken on newresonance. Where questionable conduct was once shrugged off as Abusiness asusual," now both the public and the press are demanding greateraccountability from Members of Congress. Leader Tom DeLay's ethicstransgressions are just the tip of the iceberg. At a time when a recent Gallup Poll reports only that 36% of those polledexpress approval of Congress, people are taking a harder look at theactions of their own representatives. "It is time for our representatives to take their constitutional obligationto police themselves seriously, an obligation that members of bothpolitical parties have ignored to the detriment of the American people,"Sloan said today. Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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