A growing chorus of voices are calling for the release of a much-hyped House Ethics report on Rep. Matt Gaetz, who resigned Wednesday shortly after earning President-elect Donald Trump’s nod for attorney general.
House Ethics had been investigating the Florida Republican for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, among other allegations. The committee was set to vote Friday on the release of a damaging report, Punchbowl News first reported, but then came his surprise resignation.
“The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report. We cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people,” Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., said in a statement Thursday.
