DeLay Says Ethics Inquiry Rift Is Ploy to Sway '06 Elections

DeLay Says Ethics Inquiry Rift Is Ploy to Sway '06 Elections - New York Times: "With the House ethics panel locked in a tense stalemate, the majority leader, Representative Tom DeLay, accused Democrats on Tuesday of deliberately stalling an investigation of him in order to drag it into the midterm elections next year.

A leading Democrat swiftly responded by demanding that Representative Doc Hastings, a Washington Republican, recuse himself as the ethics chairman, saying he had shown ineffectual leadership and had potential conflicts of interest."