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Ethics Committee reportedly canceled its Friday meeting as pressure surges for the committee to release its report on former Rep.
The committee has been investigating the Florida Republican over allegations of sex trafficking and sex with a minor, accusations he has denied. With Gaetz’s resignation from the House earlier this week, the committee’s jurisdiction over investigating Gaetz has gone away, but some are demanding the report be released.on Thursday evening said that the planned Friday meeting had been canceled for unspecified reasons.
“The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said Thursday. “We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people.”
Incoming Senate Republican Leader John Thune was vague on how the GOP, which will be in the Senate majority in January, would handle the matter.“I don’t know until we start the process with him and all the other potential nominees,” Thune told reporters Thursday. “None of this stuff is formal yet. But when it is, we expect our committees to do their jobs and provide the advice and consent that is required under the Constitution.
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