Nancy Cunningham Quotes
How can it be illegal or unethical if the most important man in Congress is doing it?
She and her husband had been flown across the country for a campaign fundraiser by a private businessman in his corporate jet. Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was also on the flight. Her husband was censured for an ethical violation but Hastert was not.
Nancy Cunningham, Wife of Corrupt Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham (Republican, CA), Statement to Kitty Kelly
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implicit in the weak ethics rules of the U.S. House of Representatives
The House Majority Leader Tom Delay, with a history of ethics violations, got caught in some very serious ones and convinced the House majority leadership to change the rules of the Ethics Committee to prevent the minority from initiating any investigations or inquiries. The Ethics Committee was the only House committee that has an equal number of majority and minority members and before this change, either side would initiate an inquiry.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
The bill went down to a narrow defeat, but the Republican leadership of the House held the vote open for a record setting 3 hours, until they could persuade enough members to reverse their vote. After the 3 hours, the bill passed by one vote. The House Ethics Committee did not see that as sufficient reason to start an ethics investigation.
