Democrats moved to release the potentially damaging report on the ex-Florida congressman, but were rebuffed by the vast majority of their Republican colleagues.
The House of Representatives voted to block the release of an ethics report examining the conduct of former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, the congressman who was briefly nominated for the role of attorney general in the incoming Trump Administration.
House Republicans defeated two efforts brought by Democrats to publicly release the results of a potentially damaging investigation conducted by the House Ethics Committee into the former congressman, who has long faced, introducing a resolution that would have released the “latest draft of its report and a summary of its findings to the public.” Lawmakers voted primarily on party lines to oppose the measure, with only with only Rep. Tom McClintock, a Republican, siding with the Democrats.
The votes came only hours after the House Ethics Committee also voted to keep the report under wraps, at least temporarily. The committee of five Republicans and five Democrats has remained deadlocked on the matter for weeks.Gaetz resigned from his position in the House of Representatives shortly after his nomination was announced by Trump.
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