The next ethics test for Pelosi: Chair of Intel. Committee

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now facing a second ethics challenge: who will be the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.  Pelosi has already nixed Jane Harman.  The next in line is Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) who is also an impeached federal judge:

Pelosi has decided that the ranking Democrat, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), won't be getting the chairman's job.

The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing Hastings, but Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas has emerged as the compromise front-runner, several sources said.

If she buckles to pressure from the Black Caucus and awards the prized chair to Hastings, Pelosi will have squandered her credibility on the "culture of corruption" issue she made her trademark in the last campaign.

"It's hard to talk about culture of corruption and how we're going to be the most ethical Congress ever if you don't take everything into account," said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Westchester/Bronx).

Engel's comment seems to indicate that members of the Democratic caucus understand that ethics matter.  Let's hope that translates to the leadership as well.

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