House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday he opposes calls from a bipartisan group of lawmakers to release a House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz, Twitlers choice for attorney general. Johnson said he is going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House in comments to CNN and Politico. The speaker took the stand as political pressure mounted on ethics committee chairman Michael Guest, R-MS, to release the contents of the panels years-long probe of Gaetz, first opened in 2021 to look into the sexual misconduct and other serious allegations against the pedophile. firebrand right-wing Florida Repuglican. |