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better, we owe the american people that. that is perhaps a true view of policy, but very politically expedient, because nancy pelosi said under her leadership it would be the most ethical. she sort of put this out there as a standard that may have been higher than expectations. if there is something for them to go after, they re certainly doing it aggressively, trying to connect her to the eric massa allegations and saying she should have known. josh, go to 30,000 feet here. because it does seem as if each time a political party in the last 20 years has lost control of congress, it s been the ethical issues that put it over the top. the check bouncing scandal that led to shenanigans in 94. and we saw what happened in 06.
it s going to cost. they re hoping it will come in under a trillion, which it probably will. it will have language the house members are going to want to see. they need maybe five, six, seven house votes. more. they don t have them just yet. it depends on what is in the other language and then a lot of convincing and then a lot of begging and pleading from the president, all of which they re claiming is going to happen between now and next thursday. i don t think so. howard fineman of msnbc and newsweek. thanks for your reporting. howard, i hope you don t mind last night we replaced you on the eric massa news desk with bill maher. i m glad you did and the massa story is not going away and if it is still here next week i m ready for duty. okay. thanks, howard. okay. for more on what happens next, let s turn to ezra kline of the washington post and newsweek. ezra, we have word from republican sources that the senate parliamentarian s office believes the president must sig
this resolution. obviously the republicans are kind of feeding the story, trying to give the story legs a little bit. but what is the news nugget that they re hanging this on that they put this resolution on today? well, they, thought, democrats did, that eric massa s resignation would be enough. it wasn t, because there was some confusion when the democratic officials knew of some kind of problem happening in the office of the former new york congressman. so how does the story go? well, there have been questions about what did the speaker know? now, senior aides to the speaker say that their office was given some information back in october. but not rising to the level of these sexual harassment allegations. it was really of a different tone. they said they were warned by one of massa s staffers at the time that the congressman had too many staffers, had been living with some of his staffers, and there were concerns about foul language. so today the speaker said that she did not kno
would certainly suggest that they would do it. they re not compelled to. but there would be an indication they had only barely begun before massa had resigned. they could actually get going quite quickly. but they usually take a long time. the june 30th deadline is actually pretty quick in the pace of how the ethics committee would typically work. it s been quite the week for kelly o donnell out there on capitol hill. the best beat in washington. kelly o donnell, thank you. josh green, quite the week for you. tim geithner, huge profile. still a must-read. and there s eric massa. up next, outgoing congressman patrick kennedy has something to say about the massa scandal, too. he went off on the house floor. we ll have that next in the sideshow. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. well, here they are. so many, many reasons it s so m m! m m! good!