News Release - CREW

Citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington

Rep. Hart Buys Ticket to Thursday’s DeLay Defense Dinner in DC — Hart Loyalty to Delay Trumps Claims of Objectivity
CREW Asks that Hart Be Removed From Ethics Committee

Washington, DC - According to Congressional Quarterly Today, Representative Melissa Hart (R-PA) is one of 30 members of the House of Representatives who purchased either an individual ticket or a table to the American Conservative Union dinner on Thursday to defend ethically-challenged Majority Leader Tom Delay.

Representative Hart was tapped earlier this year to serve on the House ethics committee, and chosen to head-up the investigation into DeLay’s ethics violations with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and payments to his family with his campaign funds.

This is not Representative Hart’s only link to DeLay She previously had received $15,000 from DeLay’s political action committee and held a fund-raiser at a restaurant owned by Jack Abramoff.
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