"WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - In the wake of back-to-back ethics slaps at the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, House Republicans are preparing to make it more difficult to initiate ethics investigations and could remove the Republican chairman who presided over the admonishments of Mr. DeLay last fall.
A House leadership aide said a package of rules changes to be presented to the House when Congress convenes on Tuesday could include a plan that would require a majority vote of the ethics panel to pursue a formal investigation. Now, a deadlock on the panel, which is evenly split between parties, keeps a case pending. The possible change, the aide said, would mean that a tie vote would effectively dismiss the case."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/politics/30delay.html?hp&ex=1104469200&en=733350d129ca6fa4&ei=5094&partner=homepageLOL - and over 1/2 the electorate voted for this "party"... What a bunch of jackasses.