House Ethics Committee is deadlocked on whether to release Gaetz report
NPRHouse Ethics Committee is deadlocked on whether to release Gaetz report toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The U.S. House Committee on Ethics is deadlocked on whether to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whose nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general has been plagued by controversy. After meeting behind closed doors for about two hours Wednesday, panel Chair Michael Guest, R-Miss., told reporters "there was not an agreement by the committee to release the report." Texas Sen. John Cornyn — who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would take up the nomination — told reporters he wanted to see the full record about Gaetz, and expected details of the ethics report would come out in some form. Sponsor Message House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned that releasing the report violated the panel's practice of not publicly revealing any information about probes of lawmakers who were no longer House members, saying it would open "Pandora's box."