House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
By John E. Yang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 22 1997; Page A01
The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.
Exactly one month before yesterday's vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information.
The 395 to 28 vote closes a tumultuous chapter that began Sept. 7, 1994, when former representative Ben Jones (D-Ga.), then running against Gingrich, filed an ethics complaint against the then-GOP whip.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Most people are aware that Newt Gingrich has the sexual morals of a dirty fucking hippie but few seem to remember that he had other moral failings...
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Hold on, Steve. Dirty fucking hippies didn't marry as a rule. IOW, weren't hypocritical like this scum.
sughoop, you are correct. I was just trying to point out that wingnuts often speak very poorly about the sexuality morality of hippies.
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