Thursday, May 15, 2008

House banking scandal

Around 1992 there was a scandal call the "House Banking scandal. The House banking scandal was people in the House of Representative allowed members to overdraw their House checking accounts, but were not being penalized by the House Bank The scandal involved more than 450 people in the House of Representative, they didn't actually break any laws. Some members of House of Representive were were singled out by the House Ethics Committee for leaving their checking accounts overdrawn for at least eight months out of a sample of 39 months. The scandal was made public when Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, along with 7 freshman Republicans also known as "The gang of seven" decide to make the scandal public because since most of the people in the scandal were Democrats they thought get impeach more than the Republicans that were involved in the scandal. 77 Representatives that were involved in the scandal resigned or were ousted in the 1994 election.

Here's a list of the 22 worst, as identified by the House Ethics Committee:
Tommy Robinson (Republican-Arkansas) 996 checks/16 months overdue
Robert Mrazek (Democrat-New York) 920/23
Robert Davis (Republican-Michigan) 878/13 ($350,000)
Doug Walgren (Democrat-Pennsylvania) 858/16
Charles Hatcher (Democrat-Georgia) 819/35 ($273,000)
Stephen Solarz (Democrat-New York) 743/30
Charles Hayes (Democrat-Illinois) 716/15
Ronald Coleman (Democrat-Texas) 673/23 ($275,848)
Carl C. Perkins (Democrat-Kentucky) 514/14
Bill Alexander (Democrat-Arkansas) 487/18
William Goodling (Republican-Pennsylvania) 430/9
Edolphus Towns (Democrat-New York) 408/18
Edward Feighan (Democrat-Ohio) 397/8
Harold Ford (Democrat-Tennessee) 388/31 ($552,447)
Mickey Edwards (Republican-Ohio) 386/13 ($54,000)
William Clay (Democrat-Missouri) 328/9
Tony Coelho (Democrat-California) 316/12
John Conyers (Democrat-Michigan) 273/9
Mary Rose Oakar (Democrat-Ohio) 213/18
Joseph Early (Democrat-Massachusetts) 124/13
Doug Bosco (Democrat-California) 124/13
Jim Bates (Democrat-California) 89/9

Here are the people that left congess after the public found out about the scandal:
Left Congress
Bill Alexander (Democrat-Arkansas)
Albert Bustamante (Democrat-Texas)
Robert W. Davis (Democrat-Michigan)
Edward F. Feighan (Democrat-Ohio)
Charles Hatcher (Democrat-Georgia)
Charles A. Hayes (Democrat-Illinois)
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. (Democrat-Kentucky)
Bill Lowery (Republican-California)
Nicholas Mavroules (Democrat-Massachusetts)
Mary Rose Oakar (Democrat-Ohio)
Carl C. Perkins (Democrat-Kentucky)
Gus Savage (Democrat-Illinois)
Lawrence J. Smith (Democrat-Florida)
Stephen J. Solarz (Democrat-New York

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