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Ethics panel questions officials in Foley scandal
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published October 12, 2006
WASHINGTON - House officials who directly supervise teenage congressional pages were questioned Wednesday by ethics committee investigators investigating the handling of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate messages to pages. The internal investigators spoke privately with Peggy Sampson, who supervises House pages sponsored by Republican lawmakers, and her Democratic counterpart, Wren Ivester. The high schoolers attend classes at Congress' page school and perform errands for lawmakers. By starting with those closest to the pages, investigators can learn what the youngsters might have told the supervisors about Foley, and whether they reported any inappropriate conduct to higher House officials. Investigators plan today to question Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham. He says he took action in 2002 or 2003 when he learned of Foley's inappropriate approaches to pages. Fordham has emerged as a key figure because he said he brought the allegations to Speaker Dennis Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer. Fordham has said he subsequently learned that Palmer spoke with Foley. Palmer has denied speaking with Fordham at that time, and Hastert's office said the speaker's staff first learned about Foley's conduct in the fall of 2005.
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