What happened was that McCain was in the House when he did all the things he did for Keating. The Scandal broke when he was in the Senate, and that put him in a convenient Limbo. Since it happened before he took his Senate seat the Senate Ethics Committee said it had no standing to listen ot the case.
The House said he was no longer a Representative, so it had no jurisdiction to sanction him, and he had about five years to play his mea culpas and trust the electorate to forget about it.
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Re: McCain and the Keating Five
Date: 2009-12-17 04:31 am (UTC)The House said he was no longer a Representative, so it had no jurisdiction to sanction him, and he had about five years to play his mea culpas and trust the electorate to forget about it.