The House Ethics Committee “meets today to discuss whether to release their investigative report on Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general,” Semafor reports.
“The evenly-divided, 10-member panel requires a simple majority to release findings that reportedly center around alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, which Gaetz has denied.”
Punchbowl News: “It’s uncertain whether there will be a straight up or down vote on releasing the report. It would take just one Republican to cross party lines and vote to release the report, although that’s very unlikely to happen. Democrats are united in calling for its release.”
“And then there’s the ‘nuclear option’ of a Democrat on the Ethics Committee just leaking the report or trying to enter it into the Congressional Record, moves that could jeopardize the entire future of the panel. In other words, the stakes couldn’t be higher here.”
ABC News: Ethics Committee to meet, but it’s not clear if vote on Gaetz report is on its agenda.
