The PMA story is starting to become a major headache for congressional Democrats.
RollCall reports that Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House number 2, plans this afternoon to offer a measure designed to force the House Ethics committee to reveal whether it’s investigating senior Democratic appropriators’ ties to the now-defunct lobbying firm.Rep. Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican and passionate earmark foe has been agitating for a probe, and Hoyer’s move appears to be a grudging response to the fact that Flake has slowly been gaining support among Democratic lawmakers. Flake’s efforts got a key boost last week when Rep. Pete Visclosky, who chairs an appropriations subcommittee and has close ties to PMA, announced he’d been subpoenaed by federal investigators, who are examining whether the firm gave contributions in return for earmarks.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=142069