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Ethics Committee, Page Locker Room Share Same Wall

October 05, 2006 2:25 PM

ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (aka The Ethics Committee), meets in a room off a cramped hallway in the basement of the Capitol building.

This morning the hallway is full of reporters staking out the committee as it convened its first meeting to consider how the House should go about its investigation into Mark Foley's Instant Message relationship with underage former Congressional pages.

Literally one door down from the ethics committee meeting room, reporters have been amused to note, is the small locker room used by pages to keep their backpacks during the day.

They have been coming and going into the locker room all morning, breaking through the throng of reporters, just beyond sight of the television camera trained on the Ethics Committee door, spying members as they come and go, investigating the page scandal.

At the opposite end of the same hallway is the flag office into which the shirtless, drug-addled, derringer-toting car thief sought refuge recently from Capitol Police only to be tackled by civilian flag office workers.

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