The House Ethics Committee voted to not release its incomplete report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who recently resigned from Congress after President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate him as Attorney General.
Despite calls to release the report, the committee remains divided, with some members pushing for the release of the document and others arguing against going against the precedent that such reports should only be released for those who are still members of Congress.
“There is not an agreement by the committee to release the report,” Ethics Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters following a roughly two-hour meeting.
The panel, which met behind closed doors, took multiple votes, a source familiar with the situation told The Hill, including one to release the report as-is, which failed, another to publish just the exhibits…
