WASHINGTON _ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he isn't speaking to his members about how to steer clear of possible ethics violations during the coronavirus crisis, even as two Senate Republicans are facing accusations of using information from a closed briefing about the looming global pandemic to inform stock sales.
"I don't have any advice about that," the Kentucky Republican recently told McClatchy in an interview. "There's a process for handling complaints and if there are complaints against members, and there are frequently _ many of them bogus, some of them not _ they go to the Senate Ethics Committee."
The Senate Ethics Committee has shown no sign that it is actively pursuing an investigation into the two GOP senators under scrutiny _ Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia.
