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Ethics Committee to Investigate Whitfield, Wife

Ethics Committee to Investigate Whitfield, Wife
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By The Associated Press
Mar. 27, 2015 | WASHINGTON, D.C.
By The Associated Press Mar. 27, 2015 | 05:29 PM | WASHINGTON, D.C.
The House Ethics Committee is forming an investigative subcommittee to determine whether Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky violated House rules by allowing his wife to lobby staff members on issues related to her work with the Humane Society of the United States.
 
The committee will investigate allegations that Whitfield improperly used his official position to benefit himself, his wife or the Humane Society.
 
Whitfield, in his 11th term, has called the allegations politically motivated by opponents of his work on legislation to regulate the Tennessee Walking Horse industry. Whitfield's wife, Constance Harriman Whitfield, is a lobbyist for the Humane Society Legislative Fund and worked with her husband on the bill. Some Tennessee Walking Horses are trained using "soring," which uses caustic chemicals to inflict pain on the horses' feet and legs so their gait is exaggerated.
 
Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant of Texas will chair the four-member investigative panel.
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