House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he does not think a House Ethics Committee report on allegations related to Matt Gaetz should be released and is 바카라 게임 웹사이트�going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Johnson called on the ethics panel to withhold the report shortly after returning from visiting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and said he plans to speak with the panel바카라 게임 웹사이트�s chairman, GOP Rep. Michael Guest. Gaetz, who resigned from Congress this week after Trump announced his intent to nominate him to serve as attorney general, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Johnson told reporters on Friday. The comments are a significant move by the House GOP leader to push to block the release of a report from a probe that is supposed to be separate from the speaker바카라 게임 웹사이트�s office.Johnson바카라 게임 웹사이트�s comments also mark a reversal after he said on Thursday, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the speaker is not involved with what happens in ethics. Lots of important reasons for that.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Since Gaetz has resigned, the probe has ended as the panel only has jurisdiction over a member when they are serving in Congress. Lawmakers have been deliberating whether the panel still has the power to release the report, even if Gaetz is no longer a member of Congress.Speaking again to reporters again on Friday after saying he would ask the Ethics Committee not to release the report, Johnson refused to say if he had spoken to Trump about the issue and sought to clarify his position on the committee not issuing the report.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m not talking to anybody about what I바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve said to Trump,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Johnson said, emphasizing that the speaker바카라 게임 웹사이트�s office has 바카라 게임 웹사이트�no involvement or understanding바카라 게임 웹사이트� of the ethics committee바카라 게임 웹사이트�s inner workings.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Let me say this. I believe it is very important to maintain the House바카라 게임 웹사이트�s traditions of not issuing ethics reports on people who are no longer (a) member of Congress,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Johnson said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think it would open a Pandora바카라 게임 웹사이트�s box. It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s a very important rule that should be maintained. It has been broken once or twice, it should not have been.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Johnson continued, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�What I바카라 게임 웹사이트�m saying is, if someone is no longer a member of Congress, we are not in the business of investigating and publishing reports about people who are not part of this institution. The House Ethics Committee바카라 게임 웹사이트�s jurisdiction is over sitting members of Congress. I think if you think about it, this will make sense to everybody.바카라 게임 웹사이트�A spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed back on Johnson바카라 게임 웹사이트�s comments in a statement to CNN.바카라 게임 웹사이트�There is longstanding precedent for releasing ethics investigation materials after a Member resigns, whether in the House or Senate. The now former Congressman shouldn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t be able to resign away an ethics investigation involving allegations of grave misconduct, especially when he will be nominated to be our country바카라 게임 웹사이트�s top law enforcement officer,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Josh Sorbe, spokesperson for Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.바카라 게임 웹사이트�There is bipartisan support for the Senate Judiciary Committee having access to this information. Chair Durbin will continue pursuing it so members of the Committee can fulfill their constitutional obligation of advice and consent on this deeply problematic nominee.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The ethics panel had been due to meet this week to vote on releasing a report addressing numerous allegations about Gaetz, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. But committee Republicans canceled a scheduled meeting on Friday with Democrats after meeting privately Thursday night.The Senate Judiciary Committee requested on Thursday that the House Ethics Committee immediately preserve and 바카라 게임 웹사이트�transmit all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz, including the report바카라 게임 웹사이트� as the Senate gears up to vet the nomination during what is expected to be a contentious confirmation process.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The Senate certainly had a right to request (the Gaetz report). I can바카라 게임 웹사이트�t talk about our internal deliberations, but the information that they바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve requested, I think it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s totally reasonable for them to have, and in fact, I think it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s essential for them to get that kind of information before they make a decision of this magnitude,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey, who serves on the Ethics Committee.The Ethics Committee said in June that it had been probing allegations that Gaetz may have 바카라 게임 웹사이트�engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.바카라 게임 웹사이트�At that time, the panel said that Gaetz 바카라 게임 웹사이트�has categorically denied all of the allegations before the Committee.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Democrats are beginning to openly question the timing of Gaetz바카라 게임 웹사이트�s resignation, and if it was tied to the impending report release.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who served on the ethics panel for seven years, told reporters, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�One would suspect the timing is suspicious because it was a matter of hours before the committee was going to release their report. And I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know what the tradition is of the committee to say we can바카라 게임 웹사이트�t let somebody exploit the timing of the report because there is a lot of work that goes into it.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�It defies belief that anyone could become the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America with an outstanding House Ethics Committee investigative report that doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t get released relating to potential misconduct,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin told CNN.Pressed about whether the public had the right to more information about the allegations now that Trump has picked Gaetz to serve as his attorney general, Johnson responded, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The rules of the House have always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the ethics committee, and so I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t think that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s relevant.바카라 게임 웹사이트�CNN바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Lauren Fox contributed to this report.