“The Justice Department has privately asked the House Ethics Committee to hold off on its own probe into the freshman lawmaker,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Traditionally, the Ethics Committee has deferred to the Justice Department in such matters.”
“But in the Santos case, the Ethics Committee has refused to comply with DOJ’s request… Instead, the Ethics panel is pressing ahead with its own Santos investigation.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.