Ethics probe for McMorris Rodgers?

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Ethics probe for McMorris Rodgers?</h1>
                <h2><p>A House committee may launch an ethics probe of rising star Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Spokane Republican who just delivered her party's response to the State of the Union address. Seattle Times D.C. correspondent Kyung M. Song reports that an ex-aide alleges McMorris Rodgers violated spending</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>A House committee may launch an ethics probe of rising star Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Spokane Republican who just delivered her party's response to the State of the Union address. Seattle Times D.C. correspondent Kyung M. Song reports that an ex-aide alleges McMorris Rodgers violated spending rules during her successful 2012 campaign for a House party leadership post. The details so far sound highly technical: Campaign staffers allegedly came to her government office to work with her taxpayer-paid chief of staff during work hours, an offense that would have been fine after normal work hours. — J.C.</p>
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A House committee may launch an ethics probe of rising star Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Spokane Republican who just delivered her party's response to the State of the Union address. Seattle Times D.C. correspondent Kyung M. Song reports that an ex-aide alleges McMorris Rodgers violated spending rules during her successful 2012 campaign for a House party leadership post. The details so far sound highly technical: Campaign staffers allegedly came to her government office to work with her taxpayer-paid chief of staff during work hours, an offense that would have been fine after normal work hours. — J.C.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi