Dec.
14: Jefferson
gets booby prize: kicked off powerful Ways and Means, gets Small
Business.
Dec.
12: Jim
McDermott violated ethics standards, says Ethics
Committee.
Dec. 10:
The good people of Louisiana have
spoken: William Jefferson re-elected.
Dec.
9: House
Ethics Committee: GOP leaders knew for years about Mark
Foley's behavior.
Nov.
29: Alcee Hastings passed
over for Intelligence Committee chair.
Oct.
27: Cocktail
waitress says Jim Gibbons trying to silence
her.
Oct.
27: Ex-White
House aide David Safavian gets 18
months in Abramoff scandal.
Oct.
20: Charges against Don Sherwood
become campaign issue: did
he abuse his ex-mistress?
Oct.
19: Jim
Gibbons and his encounter with a Las Vegas cocktail waitress.
Oct.
17: FBI
raids Curt Weldon's daughter's house.
Oct.
17: Harry
Reid to amend ethics reports.
Oct.
14: Jim
Kolbe under investigation over
trip with ex-pages.
Oct.
14: Curt
Weldon under investigation for
contracts for his daughter.
Oct.
13: Ney
pleads guilty; Republican leaders vow to oust him if he doesn't
leave now.
Oct.
2: Hastert's
office knew last year about Foley problem;
FBI now interested.
Sept.
30: Mark Foley
resigns: scandal
with a former congressional page.
Sept.
16: After
adamantly denying it, Bob Ney admits selling
Congressional influence.
Sept.
9: Louisville
businessman gets 7 years for bribing William
Jefferson
Aug.
8: Cynthia
McKinney loses in primary.
Aug.
7: Bob
Ney packs it in; will "retire" from House.
Aug.
7: Supreme
Court agrees: DeLay stays on the ballot.
Aug.
4: Appeals
court says DeLay must stay on Texas ballot.
Aug.
4: Some
biographical fudging by challenger to Mollohan.
July
11: John
Doolittle criticized for funneling campaign money to wife's
company.
July
10: Former Jerry
Lewis aide comes back to House with $2 million bonus from lobbying
firm.
July
10: Search
of Jefferson's office constitutional.
June 23:
Oops! Did Bob
Ney forget to tell the whole truth to Senate investigators?
June 22:
Those pesky earmarks: did Dennis
Hastert, Ken Calvert, and Gary
Miller profit from them?
June
20: Former White House Budget Aide David Safavian found
guilty in Abramoff scandal . .
.
June 17:
Grand jury rejects indictment of Cynthia
McKinney . . .
June
16: House strips William
Jefferson of Ways & Means committee seat. . .
June 14:
Alan
Mollohan admits to misstating dozens of financial transactions on
financial disclosure form. . . .
June
9: Bye-Bye to the Hammer.
Tom DeLay's last day in Congress. . . .
June 8:
Stepdaughter of Rep. Jerry
Lewis paid more than $40,000 from PAC with close ties to Lewis. .
.
June
7: DeLay's
wife gets
retirement account from lobbyist; total to DeLay family:
$400,000. . .
June 6:
$50 million spent
on privately funded trips for Members of
Congress, spouses, and aides. . .
May
30: A
no-no!! Sen. Harry Reid takes free boxing
tickets while legislation was pending. . .
May
22: Caught
on tape! Feds videotape Jefferson
accepting $100,000 bribe. . .
May
20: FBI raids Jefferson's Capitol Hill
office. . .
May
19: Senate
looking into allegations against Robert
Torricelli concerning oil-for-food program. . .
May
17:
Finally!! After 16 months, Ethics
Committee starts investigating Ney, Jefferson, and Cunningham. .
.
May 11:
U.S. Attorney in
Los Angeles investigating Rep. Jerry Lewis
in connection with Cunningham. . .
May
8: Court
reveals witness wore a wire in Jefferson
probe. . .
May
8: Former
aide to Bob Ney pleads guilty. . .
May
4: House narrowly approves weak Ethics
bill . . .
May
4: Businessman
pleads guilty to bribing William Jefferson
. . .
Apr.
29: Randy!!
Allegations of prostitutes supplied to Duke
Cunningham . . .
Apr.
29: Feds
going after Bob Ney . . .
Apr.
22: Mollohan
steps down from Ethics Committee. . . .
Apr.
21: John Doolittle and wife putting campaign money in their
pockets, and check out their friends. .
.
Apr.
8: Feds
investigating Ethics Committee member Alan
Mollohan . . .
Apr.
7: Cynthia
McKinney
apologizes for whacking a Capitol Hill police officer . . .
Apr.
3: DeLay
announces resignation . .
.
Apr.
1: Senate
rejects call to create Office of Public Integrity
Mar.
31: Former
DeLay aide pleads guilty . . .
Mar.
31:
Six
Congressional aides subpoenaed in William
Jefferson investigation . . .
Mar.
31: Jim McDermott told to pay $700,000 . . .
Mar.
29:
Round One: Abramoff
gets 5 years 10 months . . .
Mar.
4: BadBoy
Duke Cunningham gets 8 years . . .
Feb.
21: Link
between Chelsea Clinton and a BadBoy . . .
Feb.
9: BadBoy Tom DeLay says he really didn't know Jack Abramoff . . .
Feb. 9:
BadBoy
Carroll Hubbard wants to come back to Washington. . . .
Jan.
11: Brett Pfeffer, a
former legislative director to the Honorable William
Jefferson,
pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting bribery of a public official . .
.