WASHINGTON The House ethics committee delivered a stunning blowto House Speaker Jim Wright by concluding that he improperly acceptedgifts from a business associate and evaded outside income limitsthrough sales of a book, congressional sources said Wednesday.
Behind closed doors, two Democratic members joined the sixRepublicans in a key 8-4 decision that Fort Worth developer GeorgeMallick, a longtime pal who gave Wright benefits, had "a directinterest in legislation," the sources said.
The powerful Texas Democrat's tangle with House rules was evenmore serious because two Democrats split from four other Democraticmembers of the committee to join in a bipartisan …
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