Doolittle Resigns from the Approprations Committee

[Oreo]

Source: TPM

Breaking: Rep. Doolittle (R-CA) resigning from Approps committee in the wake of FBI raid.



Read more: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013734.php

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Now it's a race to see who resigns their seat first... Gonzales or Doolittle

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. we need a poll on that issue

my question - WHAT TOOK SO EFFIN LONG, you criminal?

[Demeter]

3. How Long Has It Been? n/t

[Oreo]

5. His house was radided by the FBI on Friday

A statement he released made it sound like they were going after his wife only

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. I'm trying to picture the FBI sacking a house in a gated community of

a million dollar plus homes.

Wow. That's sobering.

[Oreo]

4. No polls in LBN anymore

My bet is on Doolittle

[maddezmom]

7. maybe they'll go on the same day

as the Senate is probing Gonzo about his motivations for firing USA's and it would be illegal if they were fired to stop and ongoing probe as per Grassley just now.

[calimary]

2. Indeed!

Hopefully that's only the beginning!

[maddezmom]

6. Doolittle resigning committee post after home

little resigning committee post after home searched
By ERICA WERNER04/19/07 11:19:46

Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., has decided to temporarily give up his seat on the House Appropriations Committee after FBI agents searched his house as part of a congressional influence-peddling investigation.

Doolittle's decision, to be announced Thursday, was confirmed by a Republican congressional staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity because the news was not yet public.

The lawmaker's decision followed by a day the disclosure of the raid on Doolittle's Oakton, Va., home last Friday. FBI agents had a search warrant for information connected with a fundraising business run by Doolittle's wife, Julie, that had done work for convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Doolittle's ties to Abramoff have been under investigation in the ongoing probe that already sent one former Republican congressman, Bob Ney of Ohio, to jail on a guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements.

more:
http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/42758.html


Embattled lawmaker gives up panel seat 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. John Doolittle (news, bio, voting record) of California has decided to give up his seat on the House Appropriations Committee in the wake of FBI agents searching his house in a congressional influence-peddling investigation.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_go_co/abramoff_doolittle_9

[Vyan]

8. Doolittle resigns from Appropriations Commitee.

Source: Thinkprogress

Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., has decided to give up his seat on the House Appropriations Committee after FBI agents searched his house as part of a congressional influence-peddling investigation. Doolittle’s decision, to be announced Thursday, was confirmed by a Republican congressional staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity because the news was not yet public.” But we thought the FBI was only concerned with Doolittle’s wife!

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/19/doolittle-resigns-from-appropriations-commitee/

[enid602]

9. stepping down . . .

How 'appropriate.'

[Old and In the Way]

10. Only a guilty man would resign his seat on Appropriations.

He'll be gone from Congress soon. Doolittle is your perfect Republican corruption case...a moralizing hypocrite who funneled taxpayer's money to Republican business cronies who then kicked $ back in the form of jobs and fundraising money. Jerry Lewis and Duncan Hunter must be starting to sweat, bigtime.

[gratuitous]

11. Well, I'm sure he has nothing to hide . . .

I wonder if he still has his passport. Might want to post a couple of feds at the gate to all flights to Paraguay just in case, you know?

[Doctor_J]

12. In the interest of balance, the FBI should be required to raid a Dem's house

whether there's a crime or not

:sarcasm:

[lpbk2713]

13. Yet another scandal to add to the long list of scandals in the notorious BushCo regime.

The BushCo regime is certain to go down in the books as the most corrupt conspiracy on the largest scale ever pulled on a gullible public.

[yellowcanine]

14. Doolittle is still in Congress? I thought he had done the tearful resignation bit already.

Someone needs to print up a scorecard to keep track of the Republican scandals. Opportunity knocks. If anyone does do that they should leave plenty of space for write-ins.

[musiclawyer]

15. I just gave money to Charlie Brown

Suggested he hold a press conference

[youngdem]

17. Damn, that was quick

No attempt at equivocation or a pyhrric Tom Delay exit?

[Hestia]

18. Doolittle steps down from House Appropriations

Source: McClatchy Washington

Doolittle steps down from House Appropriations
By David Whitney
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – Rep. John Doolittle, R-Ca, facing escalating legal uncertainties because of his connection to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, announced Thursday that he is stepping down from his position on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Doolittle is the only California member of the panel’s Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, which allocates money for flood control projects, and comes just as the Congress is ramping up work on improvements to Folsom Dam necessary to bring 200-year flood protection to Sacramento and other levee improvements along the Sacramento River.

Doolittle requested a temporary leave of absence in a letter to House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

“I understand how the most recent circumstances may lead some to question my tenure on the Appropriations Committee,” Doolittle said. “Therefore I feel it may be in the best interest of the House that I take a temporary leave with seniority from this committee until this matter can be resolved.”



Read more: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17103691.htm

[LSparkle]

19. HA! Just saw that they were looking into his wife's business records

Wonder if a second shoe will drop in this investigation ...

[PSPS]

20. When did Boehner become House Majority Leader?

[Sherman A1]

21. A late breaking development that we perhaps missed.

[mcscajun]

22. The article is in error. He was formerly the House Majority Leader

following Tom Delay's departure from the House, but became House Minority Leader (also called House Republican Leader) following the November 2006 elections.

Interesting "goof", that. x(

[eppur_se_muova]

23. He needs the time for burn-bagging. nt

[David Zephyr]

24. Karl Rove & Abu Gonzales to Doolittle: "You are on your own now, we have our own woes."

Every man out for themselves.

[diamidue]

25. He SHOULD resign.

In February, Doolittle's campaign reported that he was in deep in debt after his recent re-election campaign. So Doolittle decided to start early on his 2008 campaign fundraising efforts. The money he expected to raise was to go mainly to paying off his wife's company - which is run out of their Virginia home.

Hopefully, after this raid, his campaign contributions will dry up...

His wife and children came by our home here a few years back before an election. His wife stood on my doorstep and refused to talk to me. My husband - (tho he votes Dem) - is registered as a Republican. They must have a list of the voting registration of every resident here, because she knew I was a Democrat, and she was extremely pushy and rude - demanding that I go get my husband because she only wanted to speak with him. Just DEMANDING that she talk with my husband - who by the way wasn't home.
I have no sympathy for this woman. She is NOT some shrinking violet who naively got caught up in some wrongdoing.

[SoCalDem]

26. From Doo-little to Doo-nothing in one day :)

How sweet it is.. Now take away his pay and his health insurance and let him get a job at Walmart :)