A U.S. congressional board which oversees a Capitol Hill internship program rocked by a sex scandal, discussed allegations on Monday involving a second lawmaker, said Rep. Dale Kildee, a Michigan Democrat.
Kildee made the comment as he emerged from a closed-door meeting of a House ethics committee, which has been focused on the case of former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, who resigned last month following disclosure he sent inappropriate electronic messages to male teenage interns, known as pages.
"It’s only been allegations made," Kildee told reporters of the House page board’s discussion about a second lawmaker, who he declined to identify.
It would have been a fine way to handle the Page Scandal with Mark Foley a long time ago. We wouldn’t have needed a "leak" to get the ball rolling. A large number of Pages would have spent their year in Washington and their time afterwards unaffected by his lewd advances. Playing by the rules, Mr. Hastert, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Fordham, Mr. Trandahl, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Boehner. We wouldn’t have started a partisan war. Foley’s "Republican-ness" is only an issue because we all know that it protected him and allowed him to do his dirty business for years…
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