WASHINGTON - Add political banishment to the list of problems confronting Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), ensnared in a bribery scandal that fellow Democrats hope to turn to their election-year advantage."Democrats are determined to hold a high ethical standard," the party's leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi said Thursday night after engineering a 99-58 vote of the rank and file that stripped Jefferson of his seat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
Congressional Black causcus ain't gonna like this one bit.
h/t Ellisu at FR.
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