posted by anthony @21:41 BST
By Paul Kiel
TPM
April 19, 2007, 2:25 PM
Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., has decided to temporarily give up his seat on the House Appropriations Committee after FBI agents searched his house as part of a congressional influence-peddling investigation.
Doolittle’s decision, to be announced Thursday, was confirmed by a Republican congressional staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity because the news was not yet public.
That would be the same appropriations seat which he used to help steer $37 million to Brent Wilkes (who’s accused of bribing Duke Cunningham), and another $400,000 to Jack Abramoff’s client, the government of the Marianas Islands.
Update: More from Roll Call:
While Doolittle is expected to voluntarily take himself off the panel while the investigation continues, knowledgeable House sources said that Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and members of the Republican Steering Committee — which determines committee assignments — were prepared to remove him from his post if he would not do so himself.
Seems that Republicans are now turning against each other. Reminds me of the last days of the Third Reich when Germans began to turn against Germans.
Anthony:
Yeah, they’re throwing each other under the bus because the bus is out of gas!
LOLMAO
Suzie, do you think that video will remain down? If it stays down, by all means remove it, although I think that the fact that it’s down is evidence that someone, somewhere is extremely embarassed by senator Coburn’s remarks.
Anthony:
Yes and I took it down, however, I found the video on Think Progress and posted it. It isn’t youtube, so hopefully they won’t take it down.