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Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, did not violate House ethics rules when she contacted the Treasury Department in 2008 about a bank matter, a special investigator announced on Friday.

Newt Gingrich said Monday that Nancy Pelosi’s threat to discuss what she learned about the former House speaker from a 1990s ethics investigation is “an early Christmas gift.”

Top congressional Democrats are calling for an ethics investigation - and the truth - about whether scandalized New York Rep. Anthony Weiner broke any rules or used government resources to send lewd pictures over the Internet....

Embattled Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada announced Thursday that he will resign amid an ongoing ethics investigation, a move that could spare him from the continued embarrassment of the closely watched probe....

The House ethics committee Monday unveiled a three-count charge against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) alleging she broke congressional conflict-of-interest rules when she helped arrange a meeting of bank officials and Treasury Department ...

Rep. Charles Rangel, the influential chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was publicly admonished by the House ethics panel Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations.