Reply #7: Breaking: Maxine Waters' November 29 Ethics Trial Canceled [View All]

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Source: Reuters

Maxine Waters' November 29 ethics trial canceled
Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:41pm EST

By Tom Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel, citing new evidence, on Friday said it had canceled an ethics trial set for November 29 for Maxine Waters, a top Democrat on the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.

The House ethics committee said it returned the case to its investigative subcommittee, placing in doubt if and when a new trial date would be set and drawing a sharp response from Waters.

"Today, the committee has brought discredit upon itself and this institution by denying me, and more importantly my constituents, the right to set the record straight," Waters said in a prepared statement. "The public expects those who judge to hold themselves to their own rules," she said.

Waters, of California, was charged by a House ethics panel in August with three counts of breaking the chamber's rules for helping a bank where her husband has an investment.

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